Harivansh Rai Bachchan | हरिवंशराय बच्चन

Harivansh Rai Shrivastav alias Bachchan (27 November 1907 – 18 January 2003) was born in a Shrivastava Kayastha family in the village of Babupatti (Raniganj) in Pratapgarh district, U.P. He was a noted Indian poet of the Chhayavaad literary movement of early 20th-century Hindi literature and a prominent figure in Hindi Kavi Sammelans.

His famous poetic collections include Tera Haar (1932), Madhushala (1935), Madhubala (1936), MadhuKalash (1937), Nisha Nimantran (1938), Ekant-Sangeet (1939), Satrangini (1945), Milan Yamini (1950), and Do Chattane (1965).