Dr. Shefalika Verma
Poet @ India
Bio
Among the mature modern writers of Maithili literature Dr. (Mrs.) Shefalika Verma is known as the “Mahadevi of Maithili”. She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth on the 9th August’ 1943 at Bhagalpur in Bihar near the house of well known Bengali writer Sharat Chand. At the age of Fifteen she was married to Mr. Lalan Kumar Verma, a student of Physics Honours in science college, Patna, who later on chose Law as his profession and rose to eminence first at Saharsa District Court and then at Patna High Court. In 1974, she was acclaimed as the Best Maithili Prose Writer and was awarded with Mahamahopadhyay Dr. Umesh Mishra Memorial Gold Medal by Maithili Academy, Allahabad, which she received from the hands of Dr. Babu Ram Saxena, Former Vice- Chancellor of Allahabad University. She was the Joint Editor of Hindi child magazine ‘Chamakte-Sitare’ and Maithili journal ‘Tatka’ & at present she is also in the Editorial Board of so many magazines.