Jaishankar Prasad

Jaishankar Prasad (30 January 1890 – 15 November 1937) was a famed figure in modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre.Prasad started writing poetry with the pen name of ‘Kaladhar’. The first collection of poem that Jai Shankar Prasad penned, named, Chitradhar, was written in Braj dialect of Hindi but his later works are in Khadi dialect or Sanskritized Hindi. Later on Prasad prolugated ‘Chhayavad’, a literary trend in Hindi literature that fused romanticism with spiritualism.