Fiction writer Shivmurti, who has most powerfully depicted the sufferings. Predicament and exportation of the rural folk , peasants, laborers, the women and the oppressed of northern India, was born on march 11, 1950 in a peasants family in village Kurang (Sultanpur Distt.) situated at an equal distance from Ayodhya and Prayag .
He graduated from Sultanpur. Attending school in his childhood was his most unpleasant experience which frequently led him to remain away from his home. Most of his early life was spent with his maternal grandmother and in aimless deviations. Due to his father’s hard physical punishment he amended himself. But, then his father himself went away from the home and became mendicant. In a very premature age of 13-14, he had to shoulder the responsibility of his family which was already passing through financial crises and life insecurity. He started earning his livelihood, got tailoring training from a tailor, prepared Bidis, sold Calendars, managed gatherings (MAZMA) to sell fake medicins for increasing sex power, he narrowly saved himself from joining the gang of a dacoit, his friend, Naresh.
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For sometime he joined teaching profession and railway service. Soon after he was selected as sales tax officer by U.P. public service commission in 1975. This gave some stability to his livelihood. He retired in 2010 as Additional Commissioner.
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He became acquainted with literature during his childhood when he used to hear his father reciting Ram Charitmanas, Kavitawali, Vinay Patrika. Kabeer’s couplets. But the dialogues and the sensational stories of stage-plays and nautankies which he had seen in his childhood.
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