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{{Short description|Indian Hindi poet and author (1926–1997)}}
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| name = Dr. Dharamvir Bharati
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1926|12|25}}
| birth_place = [[Allahabad]], [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1997|9|4|1926|12|25}}
| death_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
| occupation = Writer (essayist, novelist, poet)
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| education = M.A. Hindi, PhD
| alma_mater = [[Allahabad University]]
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| notableworks = ''[[Gunahon Ka Devta (novel)|Gunahon Ka Devta]]'' (1949, novel) ''[[The Sun's seventh horse (novel)|Suraj ka Satwan Ghoda]]'' (1952, novel) ''[[Andha Yug]]'' (1953, play)
| spouse = Kanta Bharti (married 1954) (first wife), Pushpa Bharti (second. wife)
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| children = daughter Parmita (first wife); son Kinshuk Bharati and a daughter Pragya Bharati (second wife)
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| awards = 1972: [[Padma Shri|Padmashree]] 1984: Valley Turmeric Best Journalism Award 1988: Best Playwright Maharana Mewar Foundation Award 1989: [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] Rajendra Prasad Shikhar Samman Bharat Bharati Samman 1994: Maharashtra Gaurav Kaudiya Nyas Vyasa Samman
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'''Dharamvir Bharati''' (25 December 1926 – 4 September 1997) was a renowned [[Hindi]] poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India. He was the chief editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine ''[[Dharmayug]]'',<ref>{{cite news |title=A trio of aces|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/A-trio-of-aces/articleshow/5879058.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202101116/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-05-01/india/28306316_1_ram-leela-lord-ram-common-man |url-status=live |archive-date=2 February 2014 |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=1 May 2010 }}</ref> from 1960 till 1987.<ref name=b>The Illustrated weekly of India: Volume 108, Issues 39–50, 1987.</ref>

Bharati was awarded the [[Padma Shree]] for literature in 1972 by the Government of India. His novel ''[[Gunahon Ka Devta (novel)|Gunaho Ka Devta]]'' became a classic. Bharati's ''[[The Sun's seventh horse (novel)|Suraj ka Satwan Ghoda]]'' is considered a unique experiment in story-telling and was made into a [[National Film Award (India)|National Film Award]]-winning movie by [[Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda|the same name]] in 1992 by [[Shyam Benegal]]. ''[[Andha Yug]]'', a play set immediately after the [[Mahabharata]] war, is a classic that is frequently performed in public by drama groups.

He was awarded the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] in Playwriting (Hindi) in 1988, given by [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]], India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/awardeeslist.htm |title=SNA: List of Akademi Awardees |publisher=[[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] Official website |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217185616/http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/awardeeslist.htm |archive-date=17 February 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref>

==Early life==
Dharamvir Bharati was born on 25 December 1926 in a [[Kayastha]] Family of [[Allahabad]] to Chiranji Lal and Chanda devi. The family underwent considerable financial hardships after his father died early. He had a sister, Dr. Veerbala.

He did his MA in Hindi from [[Allahabad University]] in 1946<ref name="Project MUSE">{{cite journal |title=About the Playwright and Translator |date=2010|journal=Manoa|volume=22|issue=1|publisher= University of Hawai'i Press|pages=142–143|doi=10.1353/man.0.0086}}</ref> and won the "Chintamani Ghosh Award" for securing highest marks in Hindi.

Dharamvir Bharati was the sub-editor for magazines ''Abhyudaya'' and ''Sangam'' during this period. He completed his PhD in 1954 under Dr. Dhirendra Verma on the topic of "Siddha Sahitya" and was appointed lecturer in [[Hindi]] at Allahabad University. The 1950s were the most creative period in Bharati's life: He wrote many novels, dramas, poems, essays, and critical works during this phase.

===Journalism (Mumbai)===
In 1960 he was appointed as chief-editor of the popular [[Hindi]] weekly magazine ''[[Dharmayug]]'' by the [[Times Group]] and moved to Bombay. He remained the editor of ''Dharmayug'' till 1987. During this long phase the magazine became the most popular Hindi weekly of the country and reached new heights in Hindi journalism.<ref name="Project MUSE"/> As a field reporter, Bharati personally covered the Indo-Pak war that resulted in the liberation of [[Bangladesh]].

==Personal life==
Dr Bharati married in 1954 and later divorced Kanta Bharati with whom he had a daughter: Parmita. A few years later he married [[Pushpa Bharati]] and had a son,Kinshuk Bharati, and a daughter, Pragya Bharati, with her.

Dr. Bharati developed heart ailments and died after a brief illness in 1997.<ref name="Project MUSE"/>

==Prominent works==

===Novels===

*''[[Gunahon Ka Devta (novel)|Gunaho Ka Devta]]'' (गुनाहों का देवता) (1949)
*''[[The Sun's seventh horse (novel)|Suraj ka Satwan Ghoda]]'' (सूरज का सातवां घोड़ा, 1952) (The Seventh Steed of the Sun) — A short novel published in 1952 that may be viewed as a set of connected mini-narratives can be called one of the foremost instances of [[metafiction]] in 20th century Hindi literature. The protagonist is a young man named [[Manik Mulla]] who recounts these tales to his friends. The name of the work is an allusion to Hindu mythology according to which the chariot of the Sun-God [[Surya]] is said to be drawn by seven horses.<ref>{{cite book |title=A history of Indian literature: Modern Indo-Arayan literatures, part I. |author=Peter Gaeffke |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |year=1978|isbn=3-447-01614-0 |page=62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=urN55PYoaSgC&q=gunahon+ka+devta+dharamvir&pg=PA62 }}</ref> (viz. seven days in a week). This novella has been translated into Bengali by poet [[Malay Roy Choudhury]] of [[Hungry generation]] fame, for which he was bestowed with the Sahitya Academy Award. [[Shyam Benegal]]'s film [[Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda|by the same name]] (1992), based on the novel, won the National Film Award for Best Actor.<ref>{{IMDb name|0080250}}</ref>
*''Gyarah sapno ka desh'' (ग्यारह सपनों का देश)
*''Prarambh va Samapan'' (प्रारंभ व समापन)

===Poetry===

Kanupriya, Thanda Loha, Saat Geet Varsh, Sapana Abhi Bhi and Toota Pahiya are amongst his most popular works of poetry. Toota Pahiya tells a story of how a broken wheel helped Abhimanyu in the Mahabharata war.

===Play in poetry===

''[[Andha Yug]]'' (The Age of Blindness) is a poetic play. Structured on events in the [[Mahabharata]], ''[[Andha Yug]]'' focuses on the last day of the Mahabharata war. It is a powerful metaphorical work. It has been directed by [[Ebrahim Alkazi]], [[Raj Bisaria]], [[M.K. Raina]], [[Ratan Thiyam]], [[Arvind Gaur]], [[Ram Gopal Bajaj]], [[Mohan Maharishi]], [[Bhanu Bharti]] [Pravin kumar gunjan ][Dr. Ashutosh Mhaskar]and many other Indian theatre directors.

===Story collections===

Drow Ka gaon (र्दों का गाव), Swarg aur Prathvhi (स्वर्ग और पृथ्वी), Chand aur Tute hue Log (चाँद और टूटे हुए लोग), Band gali Ka Aakhkri Makaan (बंद गली का आखिरी मकान), Saas ki Kalam se (सास की कलम से), Samasta Kahaniya ek Saath (समस्त कहानियाँ एक साथ)

===Essays===

Thele par Himalayas (ठेले पर हिमालय), Pashyanti stories: Ankahi (पश्यंती कहानियाँ :अनकही), The river was thirsty (नदी प्यासी थी), Neel Lake (नील झील), Human values and literature (मानव मूल्य और साहित्य), Cold iron (ठंडा लोहा)

===Film about Bharati===

''Dr. Bharati'': documentary directed by young story writer Uday Prakash for Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, 1999

==Awards==
*[[Padma Shri]] by the Government of India, 1972
*Rajendra Prasad Shikhar Samman
*Bharat Bharati Samman
*Maharashtra Gaurav, 1994
*Kaudiya Nyas
*[[Vyasa Samman]]
*1984, Valley turmeric best journalism awards
*1988, best playwright Maharana Mewar Foundation Award
*1989, the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]], Delhi

==Translations==

* ''Andha Yug'': Dharamvir Bharati, translated in English by Alok Bhalla, published by Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-19-567213-8}}, {{ISBN|0-19-567213-5}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101211095019/http://www.dharamvirbharati.com/ Official website of Dharamvir Bharati]
* [http://www.kavitakosh.org/kk/index.php?title=%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80 Dharamvir Bharti at Kavita Kosh] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130415075658/http://www.kavitakosh.org/kk/index.php?title=%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80 |date=15 April 2013 }} (Hindi)
* [http://www.geeta-kavita.com/hindi_sahitya.asp?id=38 Remembring Bharati Ji: An article by his sister Dr. Veerbala: यादें भैया की] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203123846/http://www.geeta-kavita.com/hindi_sahitya.asp?id=38 |date=3 December 2016 }}
* [http://www.geeta-kavita.com/hindi_sahitya.asp?id=35 Remembering Bharati Ji: An article by Prof. Rajiv Krishna Saxena: मामा जीः कुछ संस्मरण] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203123648/http://www.geeta-kavita.com/hindi_sahitya.asp?id=35 |date=3 December 2016 }}

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