Education
University of Calcutta. Banaras Hindu University.
University of Calcutta. Banaras Hindu University.
Teaching career
From 1958 to 1986 he was in Nalbari College, Assam as a Lecturer in English Department. From 1986 to 1995 he was in Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Procter and Gamble College, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh as a Principal. He got the Moortidevi Award from Bharatiya Jnanpith and many awards from Uttar Pradesh, World Bank and Assam Government.
Writing career
Kuber Nath Rai dedicated his writing entirely to the form of the essay.
His collections of essays Gandha Madan, Priya neel-kanti, Ras Aakhetak, Vishad Yog, Nishad Bansuri, Parna mukut have enormously enriched the form of essay. A scholar of Indian culture and western literature, he was proud of Indian heritage.
His love for natural beauty and Indian folk literatures and preference for agricultural society over the age of machines, his romantic outlook, aesthetic sensibility, his keen eye on contemporary reality and classical style place him very high among contemporary essayists in Hindi. Kuberanātha Rāya ke pratinidhi nibandha, Sāhitya Bhavana (Allahabad), 1991
Kuber Nath Rai Sanchayan, Sahitya Academy
Rajiv Ranjan, "Bhartiyata Ki Sankalpana Aur Kuber Nath Rai" (2009) Department
Of Literature. Mahatma Gandhi Anatrrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha Maharashtra
Kuber Nath Rai: Parichay Aur Pahchan, Rajiv Ranjan,2014, Ashish Prakashan Kanpur,
DR. Ajay Radiotelevisione Italiana, "Lalit Nibandh Parampara Aur Kubre Nath Rai" V.B.S Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, United Presbyterian
Sankar Chandak, Kuber Nath Rai Ke Nibandhan Ka Swaroop Aur Shilpa Vidhan.
V.B.S Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, United Presbyterian, 2001. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari, Bhartiya Sahitya ke Nirmata, Kubernath Rai, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (2007)
Aman Mohindra;Kubernath Rai ke Lalit Nibandhon Ka Saanskritik Vishleshan, Punjabi University, Patiala.2003
Suresh Maheshwari, Lalit Nibandhakar Kuberanath Ray: Vyaktitva-Krtitva Ki Lalit Alocana, Bhavana Prakasana. 1st edition (1999).