14 Facts About Sumitranandan Pant

Sumitranandan Pant was one of the most celebrated 20th century poets of the Hindi language and was known for romanticism in his poems which were inspired by nature, people and beauty within.

Sumitranandan Pant's father served as the manager of a local tea garden, and was a landholder, so Pant was never in want financially growing up.

Sumitranandan Pant grew up in the same village and always cherished a love for the beauty and flavor of rural India, which is evident in all his major works.

Sumitranandan Pant then focused more on poetry, publishing Pallav in 1926.

Sumitranandan Pant returned to Almora in 1941 where he attended drama classes at the Uday Shankar Cultural Centre.

Sumitranandan Pant read Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine, which heavily influenced him.

Sumitranandan Pant is considered one of the major poets of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi literature.

Sumitranandan Pant authored twenty-eight published works including poetry, verse plays and essays.

Apart from Chhayavaadi poems, Sumitranandan Pant wrote progressive, socialist, humanist poems and philosophical poems.

The most powerful thing in Sumitranandan Pant Ji is that, like Shelley, he makes his composition mellifluous and tender by enriching it with numerous similes and metaphors.

In 1960, Sumitranandan Pant received the Sahitya Academy award, given by India's Academy of Letters, for Kala Aur Budhdha Chand.

In 1968, Sumitranandan Pant became the first Hindi poet to receive the Jnanpith Award, considered to be India's highest accolade for literature.

Sumitra Nandan Sumitranandan Pant composed the Kulgeet of the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee " -Jayati Vidya Sansthan".

Sumitranandan Pant died on 28 December 1977, at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.