High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bhikari Thakur was an Indian author and was popularly known as the "Shakespeare of Bhojpuri". Thakur was born in a barber-family on 18 December 1887 in a village named Kutubpur ( Diyara), Saran District, Bihar, India. His father and mother were Dal Singar Thakur and Shivkali Devi respectively. He had a younger brother named Bahor Thakur.