Occupation Financial professional | Nationality India | |
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Born 24 August 1982 (age 34)
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India ( 1982-08-24 ) Language Sanskrit, Hindi, English Genre Sanskrit, Indian literature Alma mater Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | ||
Nityanand Misra is an investment banking professional and an amateur researcher, editor and author. He is a self-taught scholar of Sanskrit and Indian literature. A technology graduate and alumnus of IIM Bangalore, he currently works as a statistical analyst for Citigroup in Mumbai. Misra has edited and authored several books, including an enlarged and annotated translation of the Mahaviri commentary on the Hanuman Chalisa.
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Life
Misra hails from the city of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. He comes from a family of scientists. His father, J B Misra, holds a PhD in Chemistry and worked as a research scientist at the Directorate of Groundnut Research, a research institute of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in Junagadh, and also served as the institute’s director. His mother holds an MSc in Biochemistry and was a teacher at Kendriya Vidyalaya. His elder sister formerly served as a scientist at the Institute for Plasma Research in Gandhinagar.
Misra had his schooling in the city of Junagadh. He stood third in science stream at the Higher Secondary Examination conducted by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board in the year 2000. He graduated from the Gujarat University in 2004 with an engineering degree in Information Technology, and is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore. Currently working with Citigroup at Mumbai, he has worked with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup in Hong Kong and India.
Work
Misra does not have any formal degree in Sanskrit, but can fluently speak the language. He is well-known in the field of Sanskrit studies for his technical expertise on the language. He has edited, translated, and designed several books. He is a disciple of Swami Rambhadracharya. In a review published on Swarajya, Suhas Mahesh called Misra's expanded and annotated translation of the Mahaviri commentary on Hanuman Chalisa the first book of its kind in English on the Hanuman Chalisa and perhaps the most comprehensive guide to the Hanuman Chalisa available in English. Special features of Misra's annotated and expanded translation include word-for-word meanings, simple translation with commentary, scholarly notes, an appendix on prosodic metres of the Chalisa along with short and long vowel markings for reciters, and musical notation (staff and Swaralipi) of its traditional melody for instrumentalists and singers.