Ramesh Chandra Shah is an Indian poet, novelist, critic[1][2] and the author of Sahitya Academy Award winning novel, Vinayak.
[7] Ramesh Chandra Shah was born on 1937 in the hilly village of Almora in the Indian state of Uttarakhand[1][4][8] in family with moderate financial means and educational background.
[2] He obtained a doctoral degree (PhD) on the thesis, Yeats and Eliot: Perspectives on India,[2] from Agra University.
He began teaching in the high school at Barechhina (Uttaranchal) and later taught in remote colleges in the small towns of Sidhi and Panna in Madhya Pradesh before moving to Bhopal.
[1] Shah is credited with several books composed of poems, short stories, travelogue, essays and novels.