When was mahadevi verma born

She wore white clothes throughout her life, slept on the wooden bed and never saw a mirror. Mahadevi Varma writings and essays mark the beginning of "feminist" writing in Hindi but she was not 'antagonistically feminist.

She also lived her life that exemplified that solution. Do you know that she renounced her child marriage which is still difficult nowadays for women to do? Even she refuses the proposals to remarry. Do you know that her story Neelkanth in which she shared her experience with a peacock was a chapter of Class 7 CBSE textbook? In a Class 9 textbook her work Gillu is described. She was the first woman to be made a Fellow of the Sahitya Akademi.

She also laid the foundation of women's poet conferences in India and on 15th April, , the first All India Poetry Conference was concluded at Prayag Mahila Vidyapeeth under the chairmanship of Subhadra Kumari Chauhan. Mahadevi Varma was greatly influenced by Buddhism and she was deeply aesthetic.

Her poetry is marked by a constant pain, the pain of separation from her beloved. With the influence of Mahatma Gandhi, she also participated in Indian freedom struggle.

On April 27, , her collection of poetry "Yama", received Jnanpith , one of the highest literary awards of India, she was the first woman to be made a Fellow of Sahitya Akademi in , she was honoured with Padma Vibhushan in and Padma Bhushan in Mahadevi Varma was a social reformer.

She strongly advocated the cause of women in India. Her husband died in the year Then, she decided to permanently shift to Allahabad. Mahadevi Varma was deeply affected by Buddhism and also contributed to the Indian freedom movement. She even tried to become a Buddhist bhikshuni. Mahadevi was appointed as the first headmistress of Allahabad Prayag Mahila Vidyapeeth, which was started with a view to imparting cultural and literary education to girls through Hindi medium.

Later, she became the chancellor of the institute. She died on September 11, at pm. Her bunglow still stands at Ashok Nagar colony in Allahabad. It is under possession of descendants of her deceased secretary, Pt. Ganga Prasad Pandey. On her birth centenary year , they have recreated a room dedicated to her memory.

Mahadevi Verma —87 : was educated in Allahabad, where she founded the 'Prayag Mahila Vidyapitha', promoting education for girls. An active freedom fighter, Mahadevi Verma is regarded as one of the four pillars of the great Romantic movement in modern Hindi poetry, Chayavada, the remaining three being Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Jaishankar Prasad and Sumitranandan Pant. Her poetic canvas boasts Dipshikha The Flame of an Earthen Lamp, , a book comprising fifty one lyrics, all of which carry maturity of expression and intense mystical quality.

Some of her other famous publications are Nihar , Rashmi , Neerja , and Sandhya Geet Of her four prose works, Shrinkhala ki Kadiyan deals with the plight of Indian women. Her reflections on art and literature included in Sahityakaar ki Astha, evince a highly cultivated aesthetic sensibility, firmly rooted in the permanent values of life.

She was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the President of India. This partnership continued till Subhrada graduated from Crosthwaite. In her childhood biography Mere Bachpan Ke Din My Childhood Days , Mahadevi Verma has written that at a time when a girl child was considered a burden upon the family, she was very fortunate to be born into a liberal family.

Her grandfather reportedly had the ambition of making her a scholar; although he insisted that she comply with tradition and marry at the age of nine, her mother was fluent in Sanskrit and Hindi, and very religious.

Mahadevi credits her mother for inspiring her to write poems, and to take an interest in literature. Following her graduation in , Mahadevi Verma's husband Dr. Swarup Narain Verma refused to live with her as she was not that good looking; she even unsuccessfully tried to convince him to remarry. She is reported to have considered becoming a Buddhist nun but eventually chose not to, although she studied Buddhist Pali and Prakrit texts as part of her master's degree.

In Verma began teaching at village schools around Allahabad. Although she did not actively participate in political activities, particularly in Gandhian civil disobedience campaigns in Allahabad at this time, she adopted Gandhian ideals, including giving up speaking in English, and dressing primarily in khadi. She was appointed as the first headmistress of Allahabad Prayag Mahila Vidyapeeth in , a private college which was started with a view to imparting cultural and literary education to girls through the Hindi medium.

Later, she became the chancellor of this institute. During her time at the Prayag Mahila Vidyapeeth, she organised several conferences of poets, or Kavi Sammelans , as well as a conference for writers of short stories Galpa Sammelan in , that was presided over by writer Sudakshina Varma.

She also continued to write extensively while teaching, including editorials for the Hindi magazine Chand , which she contributed to, edited, and also illustrated.