Rambriksh Benipuri

Ramavriksha Benipuri (, 23 December 1899 – 9 September 1968) was an independence activist, socialist leader, editor and Hindi writer. He was born in a small village named Benipur in Muzaffarpur district in a Bhumihar family in the Indian state of Bihar. He spent nine years in prison for fighting for India's independence.

Work He was the founder of Bihar Socialist Party in 1931 and the socialist wing Congress Socialist Party of the Indian National Congress, in 1934. He served as the president of Patna District Congress Committee of Indian National Congress from 1935 to 1937 during the 1937 Indian provincial elections. He was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (India) from Katra North in 1957. In 1958, he was elected as the Syndicate Member of Bihar University (Now Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University), Muzaffarpur.

Ramvriksha Benipuri hailed from Muzaffarpur in Bihar and took active part in the Indian freedom movement. He was also a journalist of Hindi Literature and started several newspapers like Yuvak in 1929 and regularly contributed in various others to spread the idea of nationalism and freedom from British rule.

Writing career Benipuriji's first writing was published in Pratapa of Kanpur in 1916. Since then, till the attainment of Independence of India, his was a life of political activities and struggle.

Yuvak Hindi Journal Yuvak, an illustrated Hindi monthly magazine, was launched in January 1929 by Rambriksh Benipuri, a distinguished Hindi writer, critic, poet, journalist and freedom fighter. He wrote Ambapalai during his detention in the Hazaribagh Central Jail.

The eminent Hindi writer, poet, play-wright, journalist and nationalist Rambriksh Benipuri, who spent more than eight years in prison fighting for India's independence writes of Non-co-operation movement as:

In the freedom movement Benipuri was a close associate of Jayaprakash Narayan and a leading light of the Congress Socialist Party.

Centenary celebrations The chief guest on the occasion of the birth centenary of Benipuri held in zonal railway training centre at Muzaffarpur, held under the auspices of railway ministry, was the former Prime Minister of India Chandra Shekhar. The main speakers included litterateur Namwar Singh and journalist Prabhash Joshi. Namwar Singh described Benipuri as only the second litterateur who preferred to associate his name with that of his village.

Prabhash Joshi ranked Benipuri with Makhanlal Chaturvedi and Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, who were both contemporary writers and journalists as well. He said '"Benipuri was not like today's journalists who work only to earn. Benipuri had a desire to create a "samtawadi samaj" and fight against imperialism."

Major literary works

Memoirs and essays Patiton Ke Desh Mein-1930-33 Chita Ke Phool-1930-32 Lal Taaraa-1937-39 Lal Tara is the symbol of a new light of the morning. The light is very near and therefore the darkness has increased. The writer wants to say that the darkness would disappear within a short time and a new rising light would come out. There are 16 such sketches in the collection. Benipuri tries to search out a new society, a new way of living and a new culture. Kaidee Ki Patni-1940 Maate -1941-45 Gehun Aur Gulaab- 1948–50 It was published in 1950. This composition also brought much laurels and fame to Benipuri and was welcomed in the Hindi world like the former two titles, "Lal Tara" and "Mati ki Murten". Zanjeeren Aur Deewaren Udate Chalo, Udate Chalo

Dramas Ambpali-1941-46 Sita Ki maan-1948-50 Sanghamitra-1948-50 Amar Jyoti-1951 Tathaagat Singhal Vijay Shakuntala Ramrajya Netradaan-1948-50 Gaao Ke Devata Nayaa samaaj Vijeta-1953. Baiju Mama, National Book Trust, 1994

Editing and critical Vidyapati Ki Padaavali Bihari (poet) satsai Ki Subodh Teekaa

Biography Jayaprakash Narayan only with the initials Jayaprakash

Lalit Gadya Vande Vaani Vinayaka −1953-54.

Collected works Collected Works of Rambriksh Benipuri, 8 volumes, Radhakrishna Prakashan

Selected works/anthology Rambriksh Benipuri Rachna Sanchayan, Sahitya Akademi

Works on Rambriksha Benipuri Gajanan Pandurang Chavan, Ramvriksha aur unka sahitya, 1984. Dr. Prabha Benipuri, Benipuriji ke natakon me samajik chetna, 1989. Ram Bachan Rai, Ramvriksh Benipuri, Sahitya Akademi, 1995. Raśmi Caturvedī, Rāmavr̥ksha Benīpurī ke rekhācitra, eka adhyayana, Sāhitya Nilaya, 2005. Indu Prakash Pandey, Hindi Literature: Trends & Traits, Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1975.