Dr. Arunesh NeeranA Living Legacy
Poet, lexicographer, and an enduring voice in the Bhojpuri literary movement — these pages gather a life's work into a single, living archive.
A scholar who carried a language forward
Born in Deoria in 1946, Dr. Arunesh Neeran spent six decades writing, teaching, and organising for Bhojpuri literature — from regional classrooms to the world stage.
His educational journey from Deoria to Gorakhpur to Varanasi shaped a worldview where language was not merely a tool of expression, but an ethical responsibility to preserve the consciousness of society. As teacher, principal, National and International Secretary of the Vishva Bhojpuri Sammelan, author of landmark works including the trilingual Bhojpuri-Hindi-English Dictionary, and organiser of nine national conventions and four world conferences, he worked with quiet determination to bring Bhojpuri from the margins of folk tradition to the centre of institutional literary discourse.
Read the full biographyFrom the literary catalogue
Six volumes spanning Bhojpuri poetry, lexicography, and regional scholarship.
Visit the librarySelected milestones
Papers, photographs, citations
A selection from the growing digital archive.
A language survives where it is spoken, written, and remembered — and a literature lives only as long as someone keeps its records.— from a 2009 address, Vishva Bhojpuri Sammelan
Dr. Arunesh Neeran
Carried in the words he wrote; remembered in the language he spent a lifetime keeping alive.