Dushyanta Pandya

Dr. Dushyanta Pandya has a long association of over six decades with the Ramakrishna Math and Mission. Presently, he is the president of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Centre, Jamnagar. Earlier, he was the convener of the centre. He is also closely associated with Ramakrishna Jyot, a Gujarati monthly published by the Ramakrishna Ashram, Rajkot. Dr. Pandya has written a good number of books, including one on Montessori Method of teaching. Also, he has translated several books of Swami Ranganathananda, Swami Jitatmananda and Swami Chetanananda into Gujarati, as well as fifty Gujarati poems of Umashankar Joshi into English. He is a recipient of Best Teacher's Award and Gujarat Sahitya Academy Award.