What was the real name of National poet Balkavi Bairagi?
- (a)Jugal Das
- (b)Balkishan Das
- (c)Tikam Das
- (d)Nandram Das
Correct — D, Nandram Das. The celebrated Hindi poet, lyricist and parliamentarian popularly known as Balkavi Bairagi (1931–2018), from Manasa in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh, was born Nandram Das Bairagi. 'Balkavi Bairagi' was his pen name; 'Nandram Das' was his given, real name.
- (a)Jugal Das — A plausible-sounding name, but not the poet's real (birth) name.
- (b)Balkishan Das — Not his real name; the commission's key credits Nandram Das.
- (c)Tikam Das — Not his real name — a distractor built on the same '…Das' pattern.
Balkavi Bairagi is one of Madhya Pradesh's best-loved modern Hindi poets — a stage and patriotic poet who also wrote Hindi film lyrics and served in the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha and the state legislature. Like many literary figures, he is remembered by a pen name rather than the name on his birth records.
The trap is that 'Balkavi Bairagi' itself sounds like a full personal name, so candidates don't look for a separate birth name. MP exams love 'pen name vs real name' pairs — lock the pair: Balkavi Bairagi = Nandram Das.
- Balkavi Bairagi (pen name) = Nandram Das Bairagi (real name).
- Born 1931 at Manasa, in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh; died 2018.
- Hindi poet and lyricist; also a parliamentarian (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha) and a state minister.
- Known for patriotic/stage poetry and for lyrics written for Hindi cinema.
The question tests the pen-name to birth-name link: Balkavi Bairagi = Nandram Das.
- Assuming the pen name is the birth name
- Confusing Balkavi Bairagi with other '…Das' or 'Bairagi' poets
MP GK asks either the pen-name to real-name link or the poet's home region; UPSC rarely tests state literary trivia, so treat this as MPPSC-specific factual recall.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
'Balkavi Bairagi' is the pen name of the Hindi poet whose real name was:
- (a)Nandram Das
- (b)Tikam Das
- (c)Suryakant Tripathi
- (d)Ramdhari Singh
Answer(a) Nandram Das — Suryakant Tripathi and Ramdhari Singh are the real names of Nirala and Dinkar, not of Bairagi.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Balkavi Bairagi, a celebrated modern Hindi poet, hailed from which cultural region of Madhya Pradesh?
- (a)Malwa
- (b)Bundelkhand
- (c)Baghelkhand
- (d)Mahakoshal
Answer(a) Malwa — his home town Manasa lies in the Malwa region.