Biography of Mahadevi Verma

(1907 - 1987)

Mahadevi Verma is the greatest woman writer India has ever produced. She was a pious lady as well as a philosopher. She inherited these qualities from her parents. The passion for writing was cultivated in her childhood. In her writing, one will find the pain and agony as well as the sympathy for nature.

She was born in 1907 at Farukhabad in Uttar Pradesh. She had a great love for nature. In her writing, the nature became her means for the expression of various facets of human life. She became famous for her writing Yama' 'Yama', in fact, consists of four epics - Nihar', 'Korja', "Sandhyageet' and 'Rashmi'. The book ‘Smiriti Ki Rekhayen', is her famous collection of prose. She was very much sensitive and emotional to the man and nature around her

She was awarded with the Mangal Prasad Bharati and the Jnanpith Award. She was also conferred the Padma Bhushan. Mahadevi Verma died in 1987. She is also known as “Mira of Modern Age'.