MPPSC 2014 General Studies Solved Paper-1

(A) Dharamvir Bharati was born on 25 December, 1926 in a Kayastha family of Allahabad to Chiranji Lal and Chanda Devi.He did his MA in Hindi from Allahabad University in 1946 and won the ‘Chintamani Ghosh Award’ for securing the highest marks in Hindi. In 1960, he was appointed as chief editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine Dharmayug by the Times Group and moved to Bombay. He remained the editor of Dharmayug till 1987.