Renowned Hindi poet Vinod Kumar Shukla has won the 59th Jnanpith Award for his groundbreaking work. His poetry blends the real and the abstract, turning simple moments into deep reflections. One of ...

His fascination with Maithili (a Hindi dialect) further fuelled his urge to write. Not in his native Bengali, but in Brajbauli, another variant. These poems were later published in 1884 ...