On whom did Balkrishna Sharma Naveen write two kavyas — "Pranarpan" and "Atmosarga"?
- (a)Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
- (b)Jai Shankar Prasad
- (c)Prabhakar Machave
- (d)Makhanlal Chaturvedi
Correct — A, Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi. Balkrishna Sharma 'Naveen' wrote the two kavyas Pranarpan and Atmosarga as tributes to Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi — the nationalist journalist he succeeded as editor of the Hindi paper Pratap — who was killed on 25 March 1931 while trying to protect people during the Kanpur communal riots.
- (b)Jai Shankar Prasad — Jai Shankar Prasad was a leading Chhayavadi Hindi poet-litterateur, but not the subject of Naveen's Pranarpan/Atmosarga.
- (c)Prabhakar Machave — Prabhakar Machave was a Hindi/Malwa-region literary scholar and critic, not the subject of these two kavyas.
- (d)Makhanlal Chaturvedi — Makhanlal Chaturvedi was another Hindi poet-freedom fighter of the era, but he is not the subject Naveen commemorated in these particular works.
Balkrishna Sharma 'Naveen' (1897-1960) was a Hindi poet, journalist and Congress freedom fighter who succeeded Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi as editor of the nationalist Hindi paper 'Pratap' (Kanpur) after Vidyarthi was killed on 25 March 1931 protecting people during the Kanpur communal riots. Naveen's kavyas Pranarpan and Atmosarga are literary tributes to Vidyarthi's self-sacrifice.
MPPSC likes to pair a poet's tribute-work with its subject; the trap is assigning the kavyas to another contemporaneous nationalist-era Hindi poet or litterateur instead of the martyred journalist Naveen actually wrote about.
- Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi (1890-1931) founded/edited the nationalist Hindi paper 'Pratap' from Kanpur
- He died on 25 March 1931 while trying to protect people during the Kanpur communal riots
- Balkrishna Sharma 'Naveen' succeeded him as editor of Pratap
- Naveen's kavyas Pranarpan and Atmosarga commemorate Vidyarthi's martyrdom
- Confusing the author (Balkrishna Sharma Naveen) with the subject (Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi) of the two kavyas
- Picking another well-known nationalist-era Hindi poet as the subject instead of Vidyarthi
MPPSC pairs a poet's tribute-work with its real-life subject — expect the question framed either way (given the poet, find the subject, or vice versa).
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, editor of 'Pratap', was killed in 1931 while trying to protect people during communal riots in which city?
- (a)Lucknow
- (b)Kanpur
- (c)Allahabad
- (d)Varanasi
Answer(b) Kanpur — Vidyarthi was killed on 25 March 1931 during the Kanpur communal riots.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Makhanlal Chaturvedi, a fellow Hindi poet-freedom fighter of the same era, is best remembered for which poem?
- (a)Pushp ki Abhilasha
- (b)Kamayani
- (c)Saket
- (d)Yashodhara
Answer(a) Pushp ki Abhilasha — Chaturvedi's best-known poem; Kamayani is Jaishankar Prasad's, Saket and Yashodhara are Maithili Sharan Gupt's.