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Who Was #BharatenduHarishchandra?
Harishchandra created amazing poems and dramas that left benchmark. In 1880, the scholars of Kashi bestowed him with the title ‘Bharatendu.
There is hardly an individual who hasn’t heard Andheri Nagari Chaupat Raja, well Harishchandra wrote
this 155 years ago targeting British and till date, this is the most successful play in Hindi.
He wrote: “Andher Nagari, Chaupat Raja, taka ser bhaaji, take ser khaja”, (A dark city, a failing king, a penny for sweets and a penny for onion rings).
Bharatendu was the man behind
what is known as the ‘Hindi vernacular nationalism’. He was the driving force behind the mass movement that culminated in the popular slogan
“Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan”.

Bharatendu Harishchandra, born in 1850, is known as the 'Father of modern day Hindi literature'. And it was
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