Dharamvir Bharati

Dharamvir Bharati (25 December 1926 – 4 September 1997) was a Hindi poet, novelist, playwright and essayist from Allahabad, India. He is best known for the novels Gunahon Ka Devta (1949) and Suraj Ka Saatvan Ghoda (1952), and for the verse play Andha Yug (1953), set against the aftermath of the Mahabharata.

He earned an MA and a PhD in Hindi from Allahabad University, where he later taught, before moving to Bombay to edit the Hindi weekly magazine Dharmayug from 1960 to 1987. He was awarded the Padma Shri for literature in 1972.