[4] Kalika Prasad Shukla was born in the Mathia-Shukia village in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh.
[4] He obtained the Navyavyakaranacharya, Nyaya Shastri and Kavyatirtha degrees in the traditional (Gurukula) system of Sanskrit learning.
[1][4] His major works include− Shukla is known for his creative writing skills and is acclaimed as a poet of great distinction.
[4] Roshen Dalal wrote that the Śrīrādhācaritamahākāvyam is a "rare, high quality Sanskrit works of the twentieth century.
... it is very hard to find a writer who sticks to traditional canons with convictions and yet succeeds in producing a sustained poem of moderate length, rising above mediocrity and blends in his composition the ever-fresh longings of man for communication with the divine.