Dharamvir Bharati, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dharamvir Bharati

writer, novelist

Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1926

Place of Birth: Prayagraj, India

Date of Death: 04-Sep-1997

Profession: writer, poet, author, journalist, academic, novelist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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, from 1960 till 1987.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.