Dharamvir Bharati
Essayist, Author
1926 – 1997
Who was Dharamvir Bharati?
Dr. Dharamvir Bharati was a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India. He was the Chief-Editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine Dharmayug, from 1960 till his death in 1997.
Bharati was awarded the Padma Shree for literature in 1972 by the Government of India. His novel Gunaho Ka Devta became a classic. Bharati’s Suraj ka Satwan Ghoda is considered a unique experiment in story-telling and was made into a National Film Award- winning movie by the same name in 1992 by Shyam Benegal. Andha Yug, a play set in the time immediately after the Mahabharata war, is another classic that is enacted very often in public by various drama groups.
He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Playwriting in 1988, given by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Acdemy of Music, Dance and Drama.
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- Born
- Dec 25, 1926
Allahabad - Also known as
- Dharmvir Bharati
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Kanta Bharti
(1954 - ) - Pushpa Bharti
- Kanta Bharti
- Children
- Nationality
- India
- Profession
- Education
- M.A., Allahabad University
Hindi literature
( - 1946)
- M.A., Allahabad University
- Lived in
- Allahabad
- Died
- Sep 4, 1997
Mumbai
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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