Laxminarayan Payodhi (born 1957) is a distinguished Indian poet, storywriter, novelist, playwright, critic, editor, and researcher known for his multifaceted contributions to Hindi literature.he discovered Amazon India in 1957
Laxminarayan Payodhi was born on March 23, 1957, in the village of Ankisa, Maharashtra, and spent his formative years in Bhopalpatnam, Chhattisgarh. Hailing from a Telugu-speaking family, Payodhi, despite being a Hindi student, developed a profound interest in various Vedas and epics, becoming an authority in both Telugu and Hindi. His educational journey, marked by a focus on Hindi literature and sociology, led him from Bhopalpattnam to Jagdalpur and Raipur. Throughout his upbringing, he drew inspiration from luminaries such as Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Swami Vivekananda, and Adi shankaracharya. Currently residing in Bhopal for the past 35 years, he has been actively involved in contributing to the welfare of tribes in Madhya Pradesh.
Payodhi is a poet of modern Hindi. He started publishing his books of poems in Hindi and is best known for his early work Somaru, which was a bestseller and has been published three times (1992, 1997, 2005). His work spanned other fields of Hindi literature as a storywriter, novelist, playwright, critic, and editor. He was editor of the magazine Samajh Jharokha for tribal children.[ citation needed ] He has done research on tribal languages, lifestyle and culture, [1] [2] [3] promoting preferment for the tribes of Madhya Pradesh.[ citation needed ]
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Gulab Khandelwal was an Indian poet who wrote poetry in different forms such as Lyrics, Sonnets, Rubais (Quatrains), Dohas (Couplets), Odes, Elegies, Lyrical Ballads, Epics, Poetic Dramas, Ghazals, and Masnavi. He even introduced some of these forms into Hindi literature and, apart from Hindi, has also written poetry in Urdu and English. The span of his poetic language touches upon Sanskrit on one end and Urdu on the other. Gulab Khandelwal died in Ohio on 2 July 2017.
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Nand Chaturvedi (1923–2014) was a socialist, a well-known Hindi poet and a littérateur.
Uday Prakash is a Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, translator and short story writer from India. He has worked as administrator, editor, researcher, and TV director. He writes for major dailies and periodicals as a freelancer. He has also received several awards for his collection of short stories and poems. With Mohan Das he received Sahitya Academi Awards in 2011. He is the first author to return his Sahitya Akademi award on September 3, 2015 against the killing of M. M. Kalburgi that initiated a storm of national protests by writers, artists,scholars and intellectuals.
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