Famous People with Name Bharati

Bharati Mukherjee            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bharati Mukherjee: is an award-winning Indian born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.Of Bengali origin, Mukherjee was born in Calcutta (now called Kolkata), West Bengal, India. She later travelled with her parents to Europe after Independence, only returning to Calcutta in the early 1950s. There she attended the Loreto Schoo

Subramania Bharati            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Subramania Bharati: was a Tamil poet from Tamil Nadu, India, independence fighter, and iconoclastic reformer. Known as Mahakavi Bharati (the laudatory epithet Maha Kavi meaning Great Poet in Tamil), he is celebrated as one of India's greatest poets. Bharati was prolific and adept in both the prose and poetry forms, and his rousing compositions helped rally the masses to support the Indian independence movement in South India. Bharati lived during an eventful period of Indian history; his contemporaries included other prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement such as Mahatma Gandhi, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Sri Aurobindo and V.V.S.Aiyar.

Dr. Dharamvir Bharati            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Dr. Dharamvir Bharati: one of the most renowned Hindi poet,modern writer,playwright and social thinkers of India.He was the Chief-Editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine Dharmayug.Dr. Bharati was awarded Padm Shree for literature in 1972 by the Government of India.His novel Gunaho Ka Devta became an evergreen classic.Dr. Bharati’s “Suraj ka Satwan Ghoda” is considered a unique experiment in story telling and was made into a national award winning movie of the same name in 1992 by Shyam Benegal.Andha Yug, his drama set in the time immediately after the Mahabharata war, is another classic that is enacted very often in public by various drama groups.

Swadesh Bharati            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Swadesh Bharati: recipient of “Premchand Award” and “Sahitya Bhushan Award” lives in Kolkata from where he edits “RUPAMBARA”- a literary bilingual quarterly journal. He has been in active field of creative writing since more than 45 years. Born at Pratapgarh (U.P) on 12.12.1939 and educated at Eving Christian College, Allahabad, Charuchandra College, Kolkata University, Annamalai University, Chennai with MA in Public Administration. He received the highest literary Honours as Shaitya Mahamhopadhyay (D.Lit), from Hindi Uiversity, Allahabad, (Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Prayag).He has started writing at the age of 12 years.

K. Pratibha Bharati            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

K. Pratibha Bharati: is a politician from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. She is a former speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (1999-2004). She was the first woman speaker in Andhra Pradesh's history. She was Minister of Social Welfare 1983, 1985 and 1994 an