Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Sumitranandan Pant
(सुमित्रानन्दन पंत) (1900 - December 28, 1977) was one of the
most famous modern Hindi poets. He is considered one of the
major poets of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi literature. Pant
mostly wrote in Sanskritized Hindi. Pant authored twenty eight
published works including poetry, verse plays and essays. Pant
was born at Kausani village of Almora, in the hills of Kumaon.
He later moved to Kalakankar near Allahabad. The mark of the a
childhood in the hills can be seen in his works and his poems
resound with an echo of the beauty of nature. His mother died
when he was very young. He was a shy and girlish child and his
classmates often used to tease him calling him 'girl'. For his
graduation, Pant went to Prayag University. On hearing Mahatma
Gandhi's call for Satyagraha, he left college. However, he
continued his education by reading English, Sanskrit and Bengali
literature. After some time, he went to Sri Aurobindo's ashram
at Pondicherry. Apart from Chhaya