On whom did Balkrishna Sharma Naveen write two kavyas — "Pranarpan" and "Atmosarga"?

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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.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Jai Shankar Prasad was a leading Chhayavadi Hindi poet-litterateur, but not the subject of Naveen's Pranarpan/Atmosarga.  (c) Prabhakar Machave was a Hindi/Malwa-region literary scholar and critic, not the subject of these two kavyas.  (d) Makhanlal Chaturvedi was another Hindi poet-freedom fighter of the era, but he is not the subject Naveen commemorated in these particular works.

Concept: 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.

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