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MAHADEVI VARMA
Mahadevi Varma (1907-1987) was a distinguished poet, writer and social reformer who dominated the Hindi literary world for much of the twentieth century. She was one of the founders of Chhayavad, a school of Hindi poetry that broke from traditional formalism and relied on symbolism to illuminate the agony and ecstasy of the human heart. In Sketches from My Past: Encounters with India's Oppressed (Kali for Women, 1999), a dramatically powerful collection of real-life portraits of oppressed women and underprivileged members of Indian society, Varma weaves her memoirs around other people's lives rather than her own. |
