Gopi Chand Narang, Professor Emeritus, University of Delhi and Jamia Milia Islamia,Surinder Deol, Former Program Manager and Senior Specialist, World Bank, Washington DC
GOPI CHAND NARANG is Professor Emeritus, University of Delhi and Jamia Mila Islamia. He was Indira Gandhi Memorial Fellow of the IGNCA (2002-2004), and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow for Residency at Bellagio Study Centre, Italy (1997). He received Mazzini Gold Medal (Italy, 2005). He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London, UK and his invaluable contribution to literature is acknowledged in the DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, Cambridge, UK. He is the only Urdu writer honored by the Presidents of India and Pakistan. In 1971, he got the President's National Gold Medal from Pakistan for his illuminating work on Allama Iqbal. He has authored more than 65 books; 12 in English, 8 in Hindi and more than 40 in Urdu. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2004 and Padma Shri in 1990.
SURINDER DEOL served as a program manager and a senior specialist at the World Bank in Washington, DC. His interest in Ghalib's poetry, a passion from his early years, led him to translate Divan-e Ghalib in
free verse, which was published as THE TREASURE: A MODERN RENDITION OF GHALIB'S LYRICAL LOVE POETRY in 2014. A new revised and expanded edition of the book appeared in 2018. He has also authored a novel titled ENDLESS LIFE (2012) and a collection of poems A MOMENT IN THE UNIVERSE (2006). More recently, he translated Professor Gopi Chand Narang's classic study of Ghalib's poetics into English and it has been published as GHALIB: INNOVATIVE MEANINGS AND THE INGENIOUS MIND by Oxford University Press. He lives in Potomac, Maryland, with his wife Daler Aashna Deol.
Preface Part 1: The Cultural Landscape The Genesis and Evolution of India's Composite Culture Part 2: Urdu Ghazal: The Classical Foundation The Concept of Love The Concept of Beauty The Concept of Self The Rhetorical Aspects of Urdu Ghazal Part 3: The Twentieth-Century Panorma The Neoclassicists The Progressives The Modernists and The Postmodernists Epilogue Bibliography Index About the Author and the Translator
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