Mohan Rakesh was one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (literally new story) movement of the Hindi literature in the 1950s and made considerable contribution to novel, travelogue, criticism, memoirs, short story, and drama. Mohan Rakesh was born on 8th January 1925 in Amritsar. He did his masters in Hindi and English from Punjab […]

Mirza Ghalib was a famous Urdu and Persian poet of the Indian subcontinent in the 19th century. His original name was Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan. Ghalib was his pen name.He was born on December 27, 1796. Mirza Ghalib was of Turkish descent. His father and uncle died when he was young. He migrated to Delhi.According

Mirabai (1498-1547) is a mystical poetess, singer and saint of the sixteenth century. Her compositions are popular allover India. She was a disciple of Shri Guru Ravidas and composed between 200 to 1300 devotional songs called bhajans. Her bhajans are in the bhakti tradition, and passionately praised Lord Krishna.Mirabai was born in an aristocratic family

Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the pioneer or Bengali literature, was the popular and important poet and playwright of his times. Bengali literature flourished with his innovations and experimentations of blank verses, sonnet forms and western literary elements in Bengali poetry. He wrote the first epic in Bengali literature.Born in the year 1824, in an aristocratic family,

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born in Florida, Missouri, of a Virginian family. The family soon moved to Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain was brought up. At school, accroding to his own words, he “excelled only in spelling”. After his father’s death in 1847, Twain was apprenticed to a printer. Her also started his career

Maithili Sharan Gupt, an eminent Hindi poet, was popularly known as Rashtrakavi. Author of the great epic ‘Saket’, Maithili Sharan Gupt started writing in the beginning of the present century under the spiring guidance of the doyen of Hindi literature, Pandit Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi. His great contribution to Hindi literature was that he moulded the

Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in the city of Dacca in East Bengal (modern day Bangladesh). As an adolescent, she and her family moved to West Bengal in India. Born into a literary family, Mahasweta Devi was also influenced by her early association with Gananatya, a group who attempted to bring social and political

Mahadevi Verma was born in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh in a family of lawyers. She was educated at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. She was the eldest child and had two brothers and one sister. She was married in 1914 with Dr. Swarup Narain Verma in Indore at a tender age of 9. She stayed with her parents

Krishna Sobti, born in Gujarat (West Punjab, in present-day Pakistan) on February 18, 1925, is a well-known Hindi fiction writer. Krishna Sobti’s style and idiom impart an authentic touch to whatever theme and situation she portrays. The essence of her creativity lies in her honesty and eagerness to reach the truth and to look into

Khushwant Singh, one of the best known Indian writers of all times, was born in 1915 in Hadali (now in Pakistan). He was educated at the Government College, Lahore and at King’s College, Cambridge University, and the Inner Temple in London.He practiced law at the Lahore High Court for several years before joining the Indian

Khalil Gibran was born in Bechari, Lebanon, a mountain village of Maronite Christians. A talented child, he was modelling, drawing, and writing at an early age. Gibran’s mother took her children to the United States, but their father remained in Lebanon. The family settled first in Boston, then in New York. Gibran returned to Lebanon

Kazi Nazrul Islam (25 May 1899–29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary, and philosopher who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against orthodoxy and oppression. His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular title of Bidrohi Kobi (Rebel Poet). Accomplishing a large body of acclaimed works through his life, Nazrul is

Kamleshwar was a renowned journalist and literary figure of the 20th century. His full name was Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena, who was famous for his short stories. He was born on 6th January, 1932 in the District of Mainpuri of Uttar Pradesh.He was the Additional Director General, of India’s national television channel Doordarshan. He was also

He was born as Akhtar Hussain Rizvi, in a small town, Mejwaan, in the district of Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh in a family of landlords. His father Syed Fateh Husain Rizvi, though was a landlord, but took up employment first in a small native state, Balharah, as a tahsildar and later on other areas of Uttar

Jhumpa Lahiri was born as Nilanjana Sudeshna in 1967. Born in London in July 1967 and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, she won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for her book “Interpreter Of Maladies”, the first Asian to do so. An Indian American author of Bengali origin, she did her Bachelors in English literature,