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Vyangya means satire in Hindi literature. Vyangya writings includes the essence of sarcasm and humour in Hindi literature. Some of the better known writers in this genre are Harishankar Parsai, Sri Lal Sukla, K. P. Saxena, Gyan Chaturvedi, Suryakumar Pandey, Sharad Joshi, etc.
The verb eavesdrop is a back-formation from the noun eavesdropper ("a person who eavesdrops"), which was formed from the related noun eavesdrop ("the dripping of water from the eaves of a house; the ground on which such water falls"). [1] An eavesdropper was someone who would hang from the eave of a building so as to hear what is said within.
Hindi literature (Hindi: हिंदी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awadhi and Marwari.
This is a list of authors of Hindi literature, i.e. people who write in Hindi language, its dialects and Hindustani language This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Mahadevi Verma (26 March 1906 – 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer and an eminent personality of Hindi literature. She is considered one of the four major pillars [a] of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. [1] She has also been addressed as the modern Meera. [2]
Vrind (1643–1723) was an Indian saint and poet in Hindi language from Marwar, in present Rajasthan.He was an important poet of the Ritikal period of Hindi literature, known for his poems on ethics (Niti), and most known for his work Nitisatsai (1704), a collection of 700 aphorisms.
Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1] Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes. [2] When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings ...
The highly metaphorical work is still celebrated for its deeply Vedantic and Sufi incantations and philosophical undertones [1] and is an important work in the Chhayavaad (Neo-romanticism) literary movement of early 20th century Hindi literature. All the rubaaiaa (the plural for rubaai) end in the word madhushala.