Mahadevi Varma
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Mahadevi Varma was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, and short-story writer. She is regarded as one of the four major pillars of the Chhayavaad movement in Hindi literature.
Mahadevi Varma (on right) receiving the Jnanpith Award from then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1982
Honorary postal stamp released in 1991
Mahadevi Varma (bottom row, third from left), along with Hazari Prasad Dwivedi and others
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
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Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was an Indian poet. One of her most popular poems is Jhansi Ki Rani.
Mahadevi Varma
…where students of different religions lived together. At first, she started to write poems discreetly. However, it was her roommate and senior, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (known in the school for writing poems), who discovered her hidden stash of poems. While others used to play outside, me and Subhadra used to sit on a…
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan