Kavita verma biography books

Biography

Shrikant Verma (1931–1986) was a central figure in the Nai Kavita literary movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Verma served as special correspondent for Dinman, a major Hindi periodical, from 1966 to 1977.

In 1976, he was elected a member of the Rajya Sabha on a Congress party ticket, and served as spokesman of the party through the late 1970s to the early 80s. He published two collections of short fiction, a novel, a travelogue, essays and five collections of poetry.

Verma won a number of prizes, including the Sahitya Akademi Award posthumously, for Magadh, in 1987.

Reviews

Pankaj Mishra

‘Shrikant Verma brought to everything he did, whether poetry or journalism, a coruscating insight into the modes and styles of political supremacy.

In Magadh, his collection of verse, excellently translated, we can see, eerily prefigured, our own present: the grand illusions, the raucous vanity, the chronic self-doubt and ultimate fragility of power.’

Jeet Thayil

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