Poet Maithilisharan Gupta was born on Aug 3rd, know history
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August 3 is inscribed in the history of Indian with many important events. One among which is the birth anniversary of Maithili Sharan Gupt, the eminent Hindi poet. He is considered one among the pioneers of Khari Boli (plain dialect) poetry and wrote in Khari Boli dialect, at a time when most Hindi poets favoured the use of Braj Bhasha dialect. Know history of the day in Aajtak's special show 'Black and White'.