Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (13 November 1917 – 11 September 1964)[1] was one of the most prominent Hindi poets, essayist, literary and political critic, and fiction writers of the 20th century.[2] He also remained assistant-editor of journals like, Naya Khun and Vasudha.[2] He is widely considered one of the pioneers of modern poetry in India,[3] and doyen of Hindi poetry after, Surya Kant Tripathi 'Nirala',[4] and known as being a pioneer, the mainstay of Prayogvaad Experimentalism movement of Hindi literature and it was also his work, which also marked the culmination of this literary movement and its evolution into the Nayi Kahani and Nayi Kavita Modernism in 1950s,[5] his presence is equally important in the rise of 'New Criticism' in Indian literature.