Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil'

Who was Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil'?

Sudama Pandey "Dhoomil", most commonly called Dhoomil, was a renowned Hindi poet from Varanasi, who is known for his revolutionary writings and his "protest-poetry", along with Muktibodh.

Known as the angry young man of Hindi poetry due to his rebellious writings, during his lifetime, he published just one collection of poems, Samsad se Sarak Tak, संसद से सड़क तक, but another collection of his work, entitled Kal Sunna Mujhe कल सुनना मुझे was released posthumously, which in 1979, went on to win the Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi.