Naresh Chandra Dev Varma

Naresh Chandra Dev Varma a Tripuri Indian folk writer and litterateur, known for his contribution to the fields of literature and education in Tripura. In recognition of his work, he was awarded the "Tripura Bhushan", the state's highest civilian award, in 2024 and the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award, in 2026 for his contribution to literature and education. He has authored 34 books primarily in Kokborok.

Naresh Chandra Dev Varma
Born	(1944-10-31) 31 October 1944 (age 81) Tripura (princely state), British India
Occupation	Writer
Language	Kokborok
Notable awards	Padma Shri(2026)
Parents	Madan Mohan Dev Varma(Father) Sambhu Laxmi Dev Varma(Mother)

Naresh Chandra Dev Varma a Tripuri Indian folk writer and litterateur, known for his contribution to the fields of literature and education in Tripura. In recognition of his work, he was awarded the "Tripura Bhushan", the state's highest civilian award, in 2024^[1]^[2] and the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award, in 2026 for his contribution to literature and education.^[3]^[4]^[5] He has authored 34 books primarily in Kokborok.^[6]

Awards

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Padma Shri 2026^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

References

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^ "Kokborok Scholar Naresh Chandra Dev Varma Conferred Padma Shri". The Northeast Post | News & Stories from Northeast India. 25 January 2026.
^ "Tripura Govt confers state's civilian award to Prof Arunoday Saha, Kokborok literary N C Debbarma | Tripuraindia".
^ "Padma Shri awardee Naresh Chandra Dev Varma hails Modi govt for recognising tribal literature". IANS News. 25 January 2026.
^ "I tried my best to nurture literary works in Kokborok: Padma awardee Naresh Chandra Dev Varma". Northeast News - Northeast India news 24×7. 27 January 2026.
^ "Tripura's Eminent Kokborok Scholar Naresh Chandra Dev Varma Selected for Padma Shri". tripurainfo DOT com.
^ "Big recognition to my literary work: Tripura Padma awardee Naresh Chandra Dev Varma". Retrieved 27 January 2026.
^ "Full list of Padma Awards 2026". The Hindu. 25 January 2026.
^ "Padma Awards | Interactive Dashboard". dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in.
^ "President Droupadi Murmu approves conferment of 131 Padma Awards | DD News". ddnews.gov.in. Retrieved 27 January 2026.
^ "Padma Awards 2026 announced". Retrieved 27 January 2026.
^ "Naresh Chandra Dev Varma Named Padma Shri Awardee 2026 for Contributions to Literature and Education - Tripura Chronicle". 25 January 2026.

v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Literature & Education
1950s	K. Shankar Pillai (1954) Krishna Kanta Handique (1955) Surya Kumar Bhuyan (1956) Sukhdev Pande (1956) Nalini Bala Devi (1957) S. R. Ranganathan (1957) Ram Chandra Varma (1958) Magan Lal Tribhuvandas Vyas (1958) K. S. Chandrasekharan (1958)
1960s	B. S. Kesavan (1960) Artaballabha Mohanty (1960) N. D. Sundaravadivelu (1961) Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (1961) Vishnukant Jha (1961) Jinvijay (1961) Evengeline Lazarus (1961)
1970s	Ananda Chandra Barua (1970) Sulabha Panandikar (1971)
1980s	Krishan Dutta Bharadwaj (1981) Abid Ali Khan (1981) Ram Panjwani (1981) Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1982) R. V. Pandit (1982) Sher Singh Sher (1982) Gaura Pant Shivani (1982) Ahalya Chari (1983) Amitabha Chaudhuri (1983) Saliha Abid Hussain (1983) Komal Kothari (1983) Hundraj Lial Ram Dukhayal Manik (1983) Raghuvir Sharan Mitra (1983) Attar Singh (1983) Mayangnokcha Ao (1984) Kshem Suman Chandra (1984) Lakshmi Kumari Chundawat (1984) Shanta Gandhi (1984) Sadhu Singh Hamdard (1984) Qurratulain Hyder (1984) Ganpatrao Jadhav (1984) Syed Abdul Malik (1984) John Arthur King Martyn (1984) Sooranad Kunjan Pillai (1984) Syed Hasan Askari (1985) Jamesh Dokhuma (1985) Kaka Hathrasi (1985) Bharat Mishra (1985) Harishankar Parsai (1985) Ashangbam Minaketan Singh (1985) Anil Agarwal (1986) Binod Kanungo (1986) Chitra Naik (1986) Abdur Rahman (1986) Nuchhungi Renthlei (1986) Raghunath Sharma (1986) Abdul Sattar (1987) Nazir Ahmed (1987) Vanaja Iyengar (1987) Khawlkungi (1987) Badri Narayan (1987) Debi Prasanna Pattanayak (1987) Sant Singh Sekhon (1987) N. Khelchandra Singh (1987) Madaram Brahma (1988) Nissim Ezekiel (1988) K. M. George (1988) Mario Miranda (1988) Vidya Niwas Mishra (1988) Ali Jawad Zaidi (1988) Kalim Aajiz (1989) Barsane Lal Chaturvedi (1989) Anita Desai (1989) Moti Lal Saqi (1989) Rongbong Terang (1989) V. Venkatachalam (1989)
1990s	M. Aram (1990) Vijay Kumar Chopra (1990) Behram Contractor (1990) Radha Mohan Gadanayak (1990) Madhav Yeshwant Gadkari (1990) Yashpal Jain (1990) Sharad Joshi (1990) Kanhiyalal Prabhakar Mishra (1990) Gopi Chand Narang (1990) Dagdu Maruti Pawar (1990) Nilmani Phookan Jr (1990) Shyam Singh Shashi (1990) Ram Nath Shastri (1990) Bharat Bhushan (yogi) (1991) Kapil Deva Dvivedi (1991) B. K. S. Iyengar (1991) Satish Chandra Kakati (1991) Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte (1991) Madan Lal Madhu (1991) Namdeo Dhondo Mahanor (1991) Keshav Malik (1991) Surendra Mohanty (1991) P. T. Narasimhachar (1991) V. G. Bhide (1992) Gulabdas Broker (1992) Krishna Chaithanya (1992) Rajammal P. Devadas (1992) Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (1992) V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1992) R. S. Lugani (1992) Shovana Narayan (1992) Nisith Ranjan Ray (1992) Moirangthem Kirti Singh (1992) B. K. Thapar (1992) Mark Tully (1992) B. N. Goswamy (1998) O. N. V. Kurup (1998) Lalsangzuali Sailo (1998) Gurdial Singh (1998) Narayan Gangaram Surve (1998) Ruskin Bond (1999) Shayama Chona (1999) G. P. Chopra (1999) Namdeo Dhasal (1999) Kanhaiya Lal Nandan (1999) Satya Vrat Shastri (1999) Rajkumar Jhalajit Singh (1999)
2000s	Grigoriy Lvovitch Bondarevsky (2000) P. S. Chawngthu (2000) Piloo Nowshir Jungalwalla (2000) Mandan Mishra (2000) Rehman Rahi (2000) K. P. Saxena (2000) Nabaneeta Dev Sen (2000) Elangbam Nilakanta Singh (2000) Bala V. Balachandran (2001) Jeelani Bano (2001) Manoj Das (2001) Javare Gowda (2001) Chandrashekhara Kambara (2001) Gnanananda Kavi (2001) Kumar Ketkar (2001) Ravindra Kumar (2001) Kalidas Gupta Riza (2001) Padma Sachdev (2001) Bhabendra Nath Saikia (2001) Vachnesh Tripathi (2001) Munirathna Anandakrishnan (2002) Gopal Chhotray (2002) Gyan Chand Jain (2002) Madhu Mangesh Karnik (2002) Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar (2002) V. K. Madhavan Kutty (2002) Turlapaty Kutumba Rao (2002) Kim Yang-shik (2002) Manzoor Ahtesham (2003) Jagdish Chaturvedi (2003) Motilal Jotwani (2003) Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad (2003) Tekkatte Narayan Shanbhag (2003) Shailendra Nath Shrivastava (2003) Pritam Singh (2003) Vairamuthu (2003) Hamlet Bareh (2004) Kumarpal Desai (2004) Tatyana Elizarenkova (2004) Anil Kumar Gupta (2004) Gowri Ishwaran (2004) Leeladhar Jagudi (2004) Sunita Jain (2004) Prithvi Nath Kaula (2004) Ayyappa Paniker (2004) P. Parameswaran (2004) Bal Samant (2004) Kanhaiyalal Sethia (2004) Ramesh Chandra Shah (2004) Heinrich von Stietencron (2004) Sudhir Tailang (2004) Dalip Kaur Tiwana (2004) Amiya Kumar Bagchi (2005) Shobhana Bhartia (2005) Manas Chaudhuri (2005) Darchhawna (2005) J. S. Grewal (2005) Amin Kamil (2005) Gadul Singh Lama (2005) Mammen Mathew (2005) S. B. Mujumdar (2005) Bilat Paswan Vihangam (2005) Ajeet Cour (2006) Sucheta Dalal (2006) Laltluangliana Khiangte (2006) Lothar Lutze (2006) Mrinal Pande (2006) Sugathakumari (2006) Sitanshu Yashaschandra (2006) Temsüla Ao (2007) Vijaydan Detha (2007) Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia (2007) Amitav Ghosh (2007) Meenakshi Gopinath (2007) Giriraj Kishore (2007) Shekhar Pathak (2007) Pratibha Ray (2007) Rostislav Rybakov (2007) Vikram Seth (2007) Vaali (2007) Sivanthi Adithan (2008) Bina Agarwal (2008) Vellayani Arjunan (2008) Nirupam Bajpai (2008) Surjya Kanta Hazarika (2008) Vinod Dua (2008) M. Leelavathy (2008) Amitabh Mattoo (2008) Bholabhai Patel (2008) Rajdeep Sardesai (2008) Sukhadeo Thorat (2008) Srinibash Udgata (2008) Suresh Amonkar Abhay Chhajlani Birendra Nath Datta Shashi Deshpande Bannanje Govindacharya Panchapakesa Jayaraman Mathoor Krishnamurty Jayanta Mahapatra Laxman Mane John Ralston Marr Alok Mehta A. Sankara Reddy Lalthangfala Sailo Ngawang Samten Ranbir Chander Sobti Ram Shankar Tripathi
2010s	Lalzuia Colney (2010) Maria Aurora Couto (2010) Romuald D'Souza (2010) Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar (2010) Surendra Dubey (2010) Sadiq-ur-Rahman Kidwai (2010) Hermann Kulke (2010) Ramaranjan Mukherji (2010) Govind Chandra Pande (2010) Mrs YGP (2010) Sheldon Pollock (2010) Arun Sarma (2010) Jitendra Udhampuri (2010) Granville Austin (2011) Mahim Bora (2011) Urvashi Butalia (2011) Pullella Sriramachandrudu (2011) Mamang Dai (2011) Pravin Darji (2011) Chandra Prakash Deval (2011) Deviprasad Dwivedi (2011) Balraj Komal (2011) Krishna Kumar (2011) Rajni Kumar (2011) Devanur Mahadeva (2011) Barun Mazumder (2011) Ritu Menon (2011) Avvai Natarajan (2011) Bhalchandra Nemade (2011) Karl Harrington Potter (2011) Koneru Ramakrishna Rao (2011) Devi Dutt Sharma (2011) Nilamber Dev Sharma (2011) Buangi Sailo (2011) Geeta Dharmarajan (2012) Eberhard Fischer (2012) Kedar Gurung (2012) Surjit Patar (2012) Sachchidanand Sahai (2012) Allan Sealy (2012) Pepita Seth (2012) Vijay Dutt Shridhar (2012) Ralte L. Thanmawia (2012) Anvita Abbi (2013) Nida Fazli (2013) Radhika Herzberger (2013) Noboru Karashima (2013) Salik Lucknawi (2013) J. Malsawma (2013) Devendra Patel (2013) Christopher Pinney (2013) Mohammad Sharaf-e-Alam (2013) Rama Kant Shukla (2013) Jagdish Prasad Singh (2013) Akhtarul Wasey (2013) Naheed Abidi (2014) Ashok Chakradhar (2014) Keki N. Daruwalla (2014) G. N. Devy (2014) Kolakaluri Enoch (2014) Ved Kumari Ghai (2014) Manorama Jafa (2014) Rehana Khatoon (2014) P. Kilemsungla (2014) Sengaku Mayeda (2014) Waikhom Gojen Meitei (2014) Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri (2014) Dinesh Singh (2014) Huang Baosheng (2015) Bettina Bäumer (2015) Lakshmi Nandan Bora (2015) Jean-Claude Carrière (2015) Gyan Chaturvedi (2015) Raj Chetty (2015) Bibek Debroy (2015) Ashok Gulati (2015) George L. Hart (2015) Sunil Jogi (2015) Usha Kiran Khan (2015) Narayana Purushothama Mallaya (2015) Lambert Mascarenhas (2015) Taarak Mehta (2015) Ram Bahadur Rai (2015) J. S. Rajput (2015) Bimal Kumar Roy (2015) Annette Schmiedchen (2015) Gunvant Shah (2015) Brahmdev Sharma (2015) Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah (2016) S. L. Bhyrappa (2016) Kameshwar Brahma (2016) Jawahar Lal Kaul (2016) Sal Khan (2016) Ashok Malik (2016) Haldhar Nag (2016) Pushpesh Pant (2016) Dahyabhai Shastri (2016) Prahlad Chandra Tasa (2016) Anant Agarwal (2017) Eli Ahmed (2017) Michel Danino (2017) Narendra Kohli (2017) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (2017) Kashi Nath Pandita (2017) Vishnu Pandya (2017) V. G. Patel (2017) H. R. Shah (2017) Chamu Krishna Shastry (2017) Bhawana Somaaya (2017) Punam Suri (2017) Harihar Kripalu Tripathi (2017) G. Venkatasubbiah (2017) Prafulla Govinda Baruah (2018) Shyamlal Chaturvedi (2018) Arup Kumar Dutta (2018) Arvind Gupta (2018) Digamber Hansda (2018) Anwar Jalalpuri (2018) Piyong Temjen Jamir (2018) Joyasree Goswami Mahanta (2018) Zaverilal Mehta (2018) Tomio Mizokami (2018) Habibullo Rajabov (2018) Vagish Shastri (2018) Maharao Raghuveer Singh (2018) A Zakia (2018) Narsingh Dev Jamwal (2019) Nagindas Sanghavi (2019) Mohammed Hanif Khan Shastri (2019) Devendra Swarup (2019) Kailash Madbaiya (2019)
2020s	Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra (2020) Binapani Mohanty (2020) Damayanti Beshra (2020) H. M. Desai (2020) Lil Bahadur Chettri (2020) Meenakshi Jain (2020) N. Chandrasekharan Nair (2020) Narayan Joshi Karayal (2020) Prithwindra Mukherjee (2020) Robert Thurman (2020) S. P. Kothari (2020) Shahabuddin Rathod (2020) Sudharma (2020) Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam (2020) Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi (2020) Yogesh Praveen (2020) Benichandra Jamatia (2020) Carlos G. Vallés (2021) Dadudan Gadhvi (2021) Imran Shah (2021) Mangal Singh Hazowary (2021) Mridula Sinha (2021) Namdeo Kamble (2021) Rangasami L. Kashyap (2021) Srikant Datar (2021) Solomon Pappaiah (2021) Asavadi Prakasarao (2021) Lalbiakthanga Pachuau (2021) Najma Akhtar (2022) T Senka Ao (2022) J K Bajaj (2022) Sirpi Balasubramaniam (2022) Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat (2022) Harmohinder Singh Bedi (2022) Maria Christopher Byrski (2022) Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous) (2022) Dhaneswar Engti (2022) Narasimha Rao Garikapati (2022) Girdhari Ram Gonjhu (Posthumous) (2022) Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous) (2022) Narasingha Prasad Guru (2022) Avadh Kishore Jadia (2022) Tara Jauhar (2022) Rutger Kortenhorst (2022) P. Narayana Kurup (2022) V L Nghaka (2022) Chirapat Prapandvidya (2022) Vidyanand Sarek (2022) Kherwal Soren (2022) Dilip Shahani (2022) Vishwamurti Shastri (2022) Tatyana Shaumyan (2022) Siddalingaiah (Posthumous) (2022) Vidya Vindu Singh (2022) Raghuvendra Tanwar (2022) Badaplin War (2022) Radha Charan Gupta (2023) C. I. Issac (2023) Rattan Singh Jaggi (2023) Anand Kumar (2023) Prabhakar Bhanudas Mande (2023) Antaryami Mishra (2023) Ramesh Patange (2023) B. Ramakrishna Reddy (2023) Mohan Singh (2023) Prakash Chandra Sood (2023) Janum Singh Soy (2023) Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari (2023) Dhaniram Toto (2023) Raghuveer Chaudhari (2024) Joe D'Cruz (2024) Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat (2024) Rajaram Jain (2024) Yashwant Singh Kathoch (2024) Zahir Ishaq Kazi (2024) Surendra Kishore (2024) Sridhar Makam Krishnamurthy (2024) Pakaravur Chithran Namboodiripad (2024) Harish Nayak (2024) Fred Negrit (2024) Muni Narayana Prasad (2024) Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit (2024) Navjivan Rastogi (2024) Kethavath Somlal (2024) Aswathi Thirunal Gowri Lakshmi Bayi (2024) Kurella Vittalacharya (2024) Anil Kumar Boro (2025) Arunoday Saha (2025) Arvind Sharma (2025) Chandrakant Sheth (Posthumous) (2025) David R. Syiemlieh (2025) Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid (2025) Gita Upadhyay (2025) Hriday Narayan Dikshit (2025) Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Posthumous)(Duo) (2025) Jagadish Joshila (2025) K. L. Krishna (2025) Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer (2025) Lalit Kumar Mangotra (2025) Madugula Nagaphani Sarma (2025) Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli (2025) Nagendra Nath Roy (2025) Nitin Nohria (2025) Pratibha Satpathy (2025) Ramdarash Mishra (2025) Renthlei Lalrawna (2025) Sant Ram Deswal (2025) Seeni Viswanathan (2025) Sheen Kaaf Nizam (2025) Stephen Knapp (author) (2025) Syed Ainul Hasan (2025) Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla (2025) V. R. Panchamukhi (2025) Ashok Kumar Haldar (2026) Charan Hembram (2026) Gambir Singh Yonzone (2026) Kailash Chandra Pant (2026) Liudmila Viktorovna Khokhlova (2026) Mahendra Kumar Mishra (2026) Mahendra Nath Roy (2026) Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar (2026) Mangala Kapoor (2026) Naresh Chandra Dev Varma (2026) Prabhakar Basavprabhu Kore (2026) Rabilal Tudu (2026) Ratilal Borisagar (2026) Shafi Shauq (2026) Shashi Shekhar Vempati (2026) Sivasankari (2026) Vempaty Kutumba Sastry (2026)

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