Who was C. Subramania Bharati?

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About C. Subramania Bharati:

He was a poet, freedom fighter, and social reformer from Tamil Nadu.
He was known as Mahakavi Bharathiyar, and the laudatory epithet Mahakavi means a great poet.
He was born in Ettayapuram, South India, in 1882, and died in Madras in 1921.
He is considered one of India’s greatest poets. His songs on nationalism and freedom of India helped to rally the masses to support the Indian Independence Movement in Tamil Nadu.
Bharathi joined as Assistant Editor of the Swadesamitran, a Tamil daily, in 1904.
In 1907, he started editing the Tamil weekly India and the English newspaper Bala Bharatham with M.P.T. Acharya.
He assisted Aurobindo in the Arya journal and later Karma Yogi in Pondicherry.
Unfortunately, Bharati was persecuted for his convictions both by the British and by the orthodox elements of his own society, who treated him as an outcast.
- He was exiled from British India in 1908 and went to live in Pondicherry, a French colony in South India.
- He spent ten years in exile there and eventually returned to Madras, where he died.
Most of his compositions are classifiable as short lyrical outpourings on patriotic, devotional, and mystic themes.
Bharathi was essentially a lyrical poet. Bharati’s best-known works included Kaṇṇan pattu (1917; Songs to Krishna), Panchali sapatham (1912; Panchali’s Vow), and Kuyil pattu (1912; Kuyil’s Song).
He also translated Vedic hymns, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra and Bhagavat Gita into Tamil.

Q1: Who was Sri Aurobindo?

Sri Aurobindo (born August 15, 1872, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died December 5, 1950, Pondicherry [now Puducherry]) was a yogi, seer, philosopher, poet, and Indian nationalist who propounded a philosophy of divine life on earth through spiritual evolution. Aurobindo is one of the key leaders of the Indian nationalist movement at the beginning of the twentieth century. Most of his writings were published In Bande Mataram and Karmayogin newspapers and in this place and time, he expressed his desire for an independent India.

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