Google celebrates poet Mahadevi Verma with a doodle
Hindi poet, author, freedom fighter, educationist and women's rights activist Mahadevi Verma was honoured by Google with a doodle on the anniversary of her receiving the Jnanpith Award on this date in 1982. Verma was also conferred with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1979, and Padma Vibhushan in 1988. Verma is credited with founding the Chhayavad movement in Hindi literature. 