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'''Shiv Prasad gautam''' [[Shivprasad gautam|S.P.G.]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Gautam|first1=Medhavi|last2=Agrawal|first2=Mukta|last3=Gautam|first3=Manaswi|last4=Sharma|first4=Praveen|last5=Gautam|first5=AnitaSharma|last6=Gautam|first6=Shiv|date=2012|title=Role of antioxidants in generalised anxiety disorder and depression|journal=Indian Journal of Psychiatry|volume=54|issue=3|pages=244–7|doi=10.4103/0019-5545.102424|pmid=23226848|pmc=3512361|issn=0019-5545|doi-access=free}}</ref> (1911–1970) was an Indian novelist, playwright, columnist, poet and satirist. His texts ''"Ehi Thaiyan Jhulni Herani ho Rama!"'' also printed in [[National Council of Educational Research and Training|NCERT]] Book.
==Personal life==
Shiv Prasad Mishra ''Rudra'' was born into a family of priests in Varanasi [[Uttar Pradesh]]. His father Pandit Mahaveer Prasad Mishra and mother Sumitra Devi looked at him as Lord Shiva's grace, hence gave him the name.
==Education and career==
After his schooling at Harishchandra and Queens Colleges, Varanasi, he went to study at [[Banaras Hindu University]] from where he obtained his BA, MA and PhD degrees. He had a long and varied teaching career. The various organizations and institutions that he was associated are: City Basic School, Varanasi, and then Mirzapur etc.; ''Aj'' daily newspaper, Harishchandra College, Varanasi etc. In the last phase of his career, in 1959, he became a part of the Department of Hindi in [[Banaras Hindu University]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Kant|first1=Krishna|title=Kashi ke Hasya Vyang Rachanakaar|journal=Soch Vichaar|date=July 2011|volume=3|issue=1|page=269}}</ref>
==Legacy==
''Bahti Ganga'', first published in 1952, is his epochal work{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}. It's a series of historical stories centered on the city of Varanasi covering that span in the history of Varanasi  from mid eighteenth century to mid twentieth century.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mishra|first1=Shiv Parasad|title=Bahti Ganga|date=2010|publisher=Radhakrishna Publishers|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-7119-478-0|page=1|edition=2}}</ref>
==Works==
* ''Bhasha ki Shiksha'', critical work
* ''Mahakavi Kalidas'', play
* ''Dashshvamedh'', play
* ''Bahti Ganga'', short story collection/novel
* ''Suchitap'', novel
* Anthologies of Poems: ''Ghazalika'', ''Tal Talaiya'', ''Tulsidas'', ''Album''.
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[[Category:Indian male novelists]]
[[Category:Indian male dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Indian male poets]]
[[Category:Indian satirists]]
[[Category:Writers from Varanasi]]
[[Category:Academic staff of Banaras Hindu University]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]