Remembering Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena: A Doyen Of Hindi Literature

by GoNews Desk Sep 15, 2020 • 08:29 PM Views 1113

GoNews pays tribute to celebrated poet Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena, a doyen of Hindi literature and a prolific writer, on his birth anniversary who was born in 1927 in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district. Dayal who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his Poetry collection, Khutiyon Par Tange Log ("People Hanging From Pegs") was one of the seven poets who first published in one of the "Tar Saptaks", which ushered in the ‘Prayogvaad’ (Experimentalism) era, which in time evolved to become the "Nayi Kavita" (New Poetry) movement