Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi (15 May 1864 – 21 December 1938) was an Indian Hindi writer and editor. Adhunikkaal, or the Modern period of the Hindi literature, is divided into four phases, and he represents the second phase, known as the Dwivedi Yug (1893–1918) after him, which was preceded by the Bharatendu Yug (1868–1893), followed by the Chhayavad Yug (1918–1937) and the Contemporary Period (1937–present). Contents 1Biography 2Career 3Works
Mahadevi Varma (Hindi: महादेवी वर्मा), (26 March 1907 – 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet and a novelist. She is considered as one of the four major pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. She has been also addressed as the Modern Meera. Poet Nirala had once called her “Saraswati in the vast temple of Hindi Literature”. Varma had witnessed India both before and after independence. She
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This is a list of bodies that regulate standard languages, often called language academies. Language academies are motivated by, or closely associated with, linguistic purism and prestige, and typically publish prescriptive dictionaries, which purport to officiate and prescribe the meaning of words and pronunciations. A language regulator may also have a more descriptive approach, however, while maintaining and promoting (but not imposing) a
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Pakistan is home to many dozens of languages spoken as first languages. Five languages have more than 10 million speakers each in Pakistan – Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki and Urdu. Almost all of Pakistan’s languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family. Pakistan’s national language is Urdu. It is also proposed to be the co-official languages along with English. The country also has several regional languages,
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Keshav is an Indian male given name which is a modern form of name Keshava, one of the many names of Lord Krishna and Lord Vishnu. Notable people with the name include: Keshav Bansal (born 1991), Indian entrepreneur Keshav Vaman Bhole (1896–1967), Indian musical composer Keshav Kumar Budhathoki, Nepalese politician Keshav Dutt (born 1925), Indian field hockey player Keshav Ginde (born 1942), Indian flautist
Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar (1 December 1885 – 21 August 1981), popularly known as Kaka Kalelkar, was an Indian independence activist, social reformer, journalist and an eminent follower of the philosophy and methods of Mahatma Gandhi. Contents 1Biography 2Selected works 3Recognition 4References 5Further reading Biography Kalelkar was born in Satara on 1 December 1885. His family’s ancestral village of Kaleli,