| 1. Mahadevi Varma was a renowned Indian poet, essayist, and sketch story writer in Hindi. |
| 2. Other poets in India fondly called her the Modern Meera. |
| 3. She was a pioneer of feminism throughout her life in India. |
| 4. She was born to a religious, passionate, and vegetarian mother. |
| 5. Mahadevi Varma shared a close friendship with celebrated Indian poets Sumitranandan Pant and Suryakant Tripathi Nirala. |
| 6. She started her career as a teacher and later became the principal of Prayag Mahila Vidyapeeth. |
| 7. She was the editor of Chand, a leading women's magazine, starting in 1923. |
| 8. In 1955, she established the Literary Parliament in Allahabad and took up its editorship. |
| 9. She was greatly influenced by Buddhism and worked in public service under Mahatma Gandhi's influence during the Indian freedom struggle. |
| 10. In 1937, she built a house named Meera Temple in Umagarh village, Ramgarh, Uttarakhand, where she worked for local education and women's economic self-sufficiency; it is now the Mahadevi Sahitya Museum. |
| 11. She organized the first women's poets' conferences in India through the Literary Parliament. |
