Devendra Satyarthi
{{Short description|Indian folklorist and writer}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1908|05|28
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| birth_place = Bhadaur, Barnala, Punjab, India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2003|02|12|1908|05|28
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| occupation = Writer
| yearsactive = 1927–2003
| known for = Punjabi folklore
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| awards = Padma Shri
Hindi Sahitya Sadhna Samman
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Devendra Satyarthi (28 May 1908 – 2003) was an Indian folklorist and writer of Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi literature.{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001ICKXMO | title=Amazon profile | publisher=Amazon | authorlink=2015}}{{cite web | url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82043495/ | title=Satyarthi, Devendra | publisher=Worldcat | date=2015 | accessdate=27 June 2015}}{{cite web | url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2842A/Devendra_Satyarthi | title=Open Library profile | publisher=Open Library | date=2015 | accessdate=27 June 2015}}
Early life
Born at Bhadaur (Barnala){{Cite web |url=http://www.hunpanjabi.net/article/article.aspx?nc=29 |title=ਰਾਮਾ ਨਹੀਂ ਮੁੱਕਦੀ ਫੁਲਕਾਰੀ: ਦਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਤਿਆਰਥੀ |access-date=15 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413213654/http://www.hunpanjabi.net/article/article.aspx?nc=29 |archive-date=13 April 2012 |url-status=usurped }} he did not complete his education and started travelling from 1927{{cite web | url=http://www.apnaorg.com/articles/sathyarthi/ | title=Footloose darwesh Satyarthi is dead | publisher=Apna | date=2015 | accessdate=27 June 2015}} collecting folk songs which he published in his first folk song anthology in 1935 under the name Giddha,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQnYGwAACAAJ | title=Giddha | publisher=Navyug | author=Devedra Satyarthi | year=1970 | pages=223}} which is considered by many as a seminal work.
Satyarthi published over 50 books composed of novels,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&dq=Devendra+Satyarthi+biography&pg=PA167 | title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo | publisher=Sahitya Akademi | date=1987 | accessdate=27 June 2015 | author=Amaresh Datta | pages=987 | isbn=9788126018031}} short stories,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YBiiMdQu3j0C&dq=Devendra+Satyarthi&pg=PA8 | title=Selected Punjabi Short Stories | publisher=Diamond Pocket Books | date=2004 | accessdate=27 June 2015| isbn=9788128804786 }} poems, essays and folksong anthologies in Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi languages, but reportedly on advice from Rabindranath Tagore, he wrote mostly in Punjabi language towards the end. Mere Saakshatkaar,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pio-BZrtK7EC&dq=Devendra+Satyarthi&pg=PA90 | title=Mere Saakshatkaar | publisher=Kitabghar Prakashan | author=Devendra Satyarthi | pages=192 | isbn=9788170166702}} Miss Folklore,{{cite book | url=http://www.bookdepository.com/Miss-Folklore-Devendra-Satyarthi/9788185134703 | title=Miss Folklore | publisher=Pustakayan | author=Devendra Satyarthi | isbn=9788185134703}} Meet My People - Indian Folk Poetry,{{cite book | url=http://jsks.biz/meet-my-people-devendra-satyarthi | title=Meet My People - Indian Folk Poetry | publisher=Navyug Publishers | author=Devendra Satyarthi | year=1987}} Pañjābī loka-sāhita wica sainika,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RveBAAAAMAAJ | title=Pañjābī loka-sāhita wica sainika | publisher=Punjab University Publication Bureau | author=Devendra Satyarthi | year=1989}} Lanka Desa hai Kolambu,{{cite book | title=Lanka Desa hai Kolambu | publisher=Navyug Publishers | author=Devendra Satyarthi | year=1991 | pages=235 | isbn=978-8185267548}} Brahmaputra,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MgRAAAAAIAAJ | title=Brahmaputra | publisher=Asia Publications | author=Devendra Satyarthi | year=1956 | pages=466}} and Rath ke Pahiye{{cite book | title=Rath ke Pahiye | publisher=Praveena Publications | author=Devendra Satyarthi | year=1993 | pages=276 | oclc=36640372}} are some of his notable works.
A winner of the Hindi Sahitya Sadhna Samman,{{cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/devendra-satyarthi-awarded-hindi-sahitya-sadhna-samman-for-contribution-to-hindi-literature/1/231319.html | title=Signposts | publisher=India Today | date=1 October 2001 | accessdate=27 June 2015}} Satyarthi was awarded the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1977.{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |accessdate=18 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 October 2015 }} He died on 12 February 2003, at the age of 94, succumbing to old age illnesses. Pancham, a monthly magazine published from Lahore, brought out a 300-page special issue on him in April 2003 and his life has been documented in a biography, Satyarthi – Ik Dant-katha, written by Nirmal Arpan.
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