Mahadevi Varma, a renowned Hindi poetess, women’s rights activist and educationist, was honoured by Google with a doodle on Friday, 27 April.
Varma is a prominent figure of the Chhayavaad period, a literary movement of romanticism in modern Hindi poetry from 1922 to 1938.
On 27 April 1982, she received the prestigious Jnanpith Award for excellence in poetry in Indian languages, for her collection of poems –Yama.
The doodle, designed by artist Sonali Zohra, has an illustration of Varma sitting under a tree, writing poetry. The right side shows her writing in the Devanagari script.