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{{short description|Hindi Poet}}<br />
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| name = Virendra Kumar Baranwal<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1941|8|21}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Phoolpur]], [[Azamgarh district|Azamgarh]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
| death_date = 12-06-2020<br />
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| occupation = Poet, writer<br />
| nationality = [[People of India|Indian]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Banaras Hindu University]]<br />
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| awards = [[Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan Award]]<br />
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'''Virendra Kumar Baranwal''' is an Indian poet and writer.<ref name="RajkamalPrakashan">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rajkamalprakashan.com/index.php/default/jmproducts/filter/index/?author=292|title=Virendra Kumar Baranwal|date=15 November 2018|url-status=live|work=[[Rajkamal Prakashan]]}}</ref> He was awarded by [[Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan Award]] in 2004 for his work ''Jinna: Ek Punardrishti''.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Baranwal was born on 21 September 1941 to Dayaram Baranwal and his wife Gayatri Devi in the village of [[Phoolpur]] in [[Azamgarh district|Azamgarh]] district in Uttar Pradesh.<ref name="RajkamalPrakashan"/> His father was a Freedom fighter. He acquired B.A., M.A. degrees from Banaras Hindu University. Further he did his LL.B. degree from [[Bhopal University]].<br />
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Baranwal retired from the post of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax in the Indian Revenue Service from 1969 to 2005, teaching English language and literature for a few years.<ref name="RajkamalPrakashan"/> Baranwal has a keen interest in Hindi, Urdu, English, Sanskrit and comparative literature as well as on literary literature, black and red Indian literature, and the discourse of Indian renaissance and freedom struggle.<ref>[https://www.storytel.com/in/en/authors/60371-Virendra-Kumar-Baranwal Author-Virendra Kumar Baranwal]</ref><br />
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==Published work==<br />
Barnwal has published many works, but ''Jinna: Ek Punardrishti'' is his most well known.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-hA6rJ2OQz4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=jinna+ek+punardrishti|title=Jinna : Ek Punardrishti|isbn=9788126709861|via=Google Books|last1=Baranwal|first1=Virendra Kumar|date=January 2005}}</ref><br />
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* ''Paani Ke Chhite Suraj ke Chehre''<br />
* ''Vole Shoyinka ki Kavitayen''<br />
* ''Pahal''<br />
* ''Rakt mein Yatra''<br />
* ''Tanav''<br />
* ''Machi Tawara ki Kavitayen''<br />
* ''Jinna : Ek Punardrishti''<br />
* ''Woh Pahla Nakhuda Hindustani ke Safine''<br />
* ''Hind Swaraj : Nav Sabhyata Vimars''<br />
* ''Ratanbai Jinna''<br />
* ''Muslim Navjagaran aur Akbar Ilahbaadia ka Gandhinama''<br />
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==Awards==<br />
* [[Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan Award]] - 2004<ref>{{cite web|url=https://khsindia.org/india/en/awards/award-categories/rahul-sankrityayan-award.html|work=Khsindia|title=List of Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan Awardee}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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