Sumitranandan Pant Biography - Birth date, Achievements, Career, Family, Awards

Sumitranandan Pant was born on 20 May 1900 in the village of Kasoni in Almora district of Uttarakhand. His real name was Gusai Dutt. His father's name was Ganga Dutt Pant and mother's name was Saraswati Devi.

Mahakavi Sumitranandan Pant, born in the family of Kausani tea garden administrator, died on 28 December 1977 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.

Sumitranandan Pant is one of the four major pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. This era is called the era of poets like Jaishankar Prasad, Mahadevi Varma, Suryakant Tripathi "Nirala" and Ramkumar Varma. At the age of just seven, when Pant was studying in the fourth grade, he started writing poetry. By around 1918, he was recognized as the originator of the new Hindi stream. His poems of this period are compiled in Veena. His famous poetry collection 'Pallava "was published in 1926. In the year 1938, he brought out a monthly paper called" Rupabha ", he was associated with Akashvani from 1950 to 957 and served as chief-producer. Was also impressed which can be seen in his later compositions "Swarna Kiran" and "Swarnadhuli". His short songs Virat, compiled in "Vani" and "Pallava", interview with wide beauty and purity. Sigh in 1922 and 1926 Pallava was published. He brought out a collection of Hindi translations of Omar Khayyam's rubies by the name Madhujwal and published a collection of poems called Khadi Ke Phool, jointly with Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

His childhood home in Kausani has been converted into a museum. The museum displays his articles of daily use, drafts of his poems, letters, his awards, books, stories, etc.

In 1960, Pant received the Sahitya Akademi Award given by Kala Akademi and Buddha Academy for the Academy of Letters of India. In 1969, Pant became the first Hindi poet to receive the Jnanpith Award, considered India's greatest honor for literature. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Arts and Old Moon, "Soviet Land Nehru Award" on Lokayatan and "Bharatiya Jnanpith Award" on "Chidambra". He was awarded the 'Nehru Shanti Puraskar' from the Government of the Soviet Union for the work of "Lokayatan". The Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan in 1961. Sumitra Nandan Pant, Vice Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee "- Jayati Vidya Institute ".