The achievement of suryakant Tripathi Nirala (1899-1961), the foremost practitioner and exponent of Chhayavada, the romantic movement in Hindi, is little-known in the English speaking world. By his mastery of the Khari Boli, by his unique individual genius coupled with his powerful historic sense, Nirala ushered in a new kind of idiom in Hindi poetry, enriching the language as no other poet of his time did. Truly an epoch-making poet, leading the struggle to ...
