Sumitranandan Pant is one of the four pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. Sumitranandan Pant emerged as the originator of the new era in modern Hindi literature. Sumitranandan Pant is counted among such litterateurs, whose portrayal of nature was one of the finest among contemporary poets. Regarding the rich personality of Sumitranandan Pant, litterateur Rajendra Yadav says that ‘Pant used to write nature-centric literature while living in costumes like romantic poets of English’. He lost his mother within just six hours of birth. Pant used to get influenced by people very soon. Pant, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Karl Marx, wrote compositions on them.
Called William Wordsworth of Hindi literature, the poet named Amitabh Bachchan as ‘Amitabh’. Pant, who has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, Jnanpith Award and Sahitya Akademi Awards, was involved in the confrontation between the reality of society as well as the power of human beings, along with the reality of society. Good days of his life were spent with Harivansh Rai ‘Bachchan’ and Aurobindo. An entire era of modern Hindi poetry has survived in his creation more than half a century ago. Pant was born on 20 May 1900 in Kausani, Uttarakhand. Just six hours after birth, the mother was snatched away by cruel death. The child was brought up by his grandmother. The baby was named Gusain Dutt. Sukumar Kavi Pant of Hindi, who was conferred with the Jnanpith Award, got his initial education in a school in Kausani village, then moved to Varanasi and attended ‘Jayanarayana High School’, after which he joined ‘Myor Central College’ in Allahabad, but did intermediate He joined the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921 before appearing for the examination.
