Dharamvir Bharati

Dr. Dharamvir Bharati
Dharamvir Bharati
Born(1926-12-25)25 December 1926
Allahabad, United Provinces, British India
Died4 September 1997(1997-09-04) (aged 70)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
OccupationWriter (essayist, novelist, poet)
NationalityIndian
EducationM.A. Hindi, PhD
Alma materAllahabad University
Notable worksGunahon Ka Devta (1949, novel)
Suraj ka Satwan Ghoda (1952, novel)
Andha Yug (1953, play)
Notable awards1972: Padmashree
1984: Valley Turmeric Best Journalism Award
1988: Best Playwright Maharana Mewar Foundation Award
1989: Sangeet Natak Akademi
Rajendra Prasad Shikhar Samman
Bharat Bharati Samman
1994: Maharashtra Gaurav
Kaudiya Nyas
Vyasa Samman
SpouseKanta Bharti (married 1954) (first wife), Pushpa Bharti (second. wife)
Childrendaughter Parmita (first wife); son Kinshuk Bharati and a daughter Pragya Bharati (second wife)

Dharamvir Bharati (25 December 1926 – 4 September 1997) 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,[1] from 1960 till 1987.[2]

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 immediately after the Mahabharata war, is a classic that is frequently performed in public by drama groups[3].

He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Playwriting (Hindi) in 1988, given by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama.[3]

  1. ^ "A trio of aces". The Times of India. 1 May 2010. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014.
  2. ^ The Illustrated weekly of India: Volume 108, Issues 39–50, 1987.
  3. ^ "SNA: List of Akademi Awardees". Sangeet Natak Akademi Official website. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012.