Bharat Bhushan Agarwal (born 3 August 1919 – 23 June 1975) was a

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litterateur and poet who has been honored by

Sahitya Akademi The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its of ...

in 1978 for their poem Utna Vah Suraj Hai. He was also an important poet of Tar Saptak edited by

Agyeya Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator ...

Biography

Bharat Bhushan Agrawal was born on 3 August 1919 in

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and died on 23 June 1975. He completed higher education in

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and

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, then worked in Akashvani and served in many literary institutions. Away from ancestral business, he considered writing literature as his work. After the publication of his first collection of poetry 'Chavi Ke Bandhan' (1941), he went to Calcutta as the editor of 'Samaj Sevak', the mouthpiece of Marwari society. It was here that he was introduced to Bengali literature and culture. Bharat Bhushan joined as an important poet in ' Tar Saptak' (1943) and became famous for his poems and oratories. While writing his other works 'Jagte Raho' (1942), 'Muktimarg' (1947), he was also associated with the magazine 'Pratik' published from

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and in 1948 became Program Officer in All India Radio. In 1959, he published a collection 'O unprepared mind', which was a demonstration of his creative maturity and ideological maturity. Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award is an award in the field of Hindi literature which was started from the year 1975 and it is given to new poets in the memory of Bharat Bhushan Agarwal.

Major works

Bharat Bhushan Agarwal's important major works are included here -: * Utna Vah Suraj Hai (That's the sun) -

Award for

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Collection. * Chhavi Ke Bandhan (Image binding) * Jagte Raho (Stay awake) * Oo prastut man (Present Mind) * Anuupsthit log (Absent People) * MuktiMarg (liberation Road) * Ek Utha Hua hath (a raised hand) * Ahinsa (non-violence) * Chalte Chalte (while going) * Parineeti (culmination) * Prashn Chinh (Question Mark) * Phoota Prabhat (burst morning) * Bharatatva * Milan * Bida Bela (farewell time) * Videha * Samaj Lekh (tombstone) * Mahabharat Ki Ek Saanjh

Deputy Secretary of Sahitya Akademi

Dr. Bharatbhushan Agrawal became the Deputy Secretary of the

in 1960 and contributed to the publication of the Akademi and its programs at the national level. In 1975, he became a visiting fellow of the Institute of Ushtar Studies, Shimla and till his death continued to do research on the topic 'Partition of the Country in Indian Literature'. His works, where they seem to be quite different from those of their contemporaries, remain as important and relevant today as they are due to their satiric intensity. Equally proficient in writing in different genres, Dr. Agrawal's works are particularly noteworthy - a lot of rest, absent people, paper flowers, incidentally and the poet's vision. His works have been published in four volumes.

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