Kalidas Gupta Riza Explained

Kalidas Gupta Riza
Birth Date:	1925
Birth Place:	India
Death Date:	2001
Occupation:	Writer
Awards:	Padma Shri Ghalib Award

Kalidas Gupta Riza (1925 - 2001) was an Indian writer^[1] and authority on the writings of the Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.^[2] He authored several books on Ghalib.^[3] A recipient of the Ghalib Award in 1987,^[4] he was honored by the government of India in 2001 with the fourth-highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.^[5] Riza's edition of Ghalib's Diwan Diwan-e-'Raza, published in 1995, supplanted Imtiaz Ali 'Arshi''s 1958 version as the most comprehensive and chronologically correct edition of Ghalib's Urdu poetry.^[6]

Notes and References

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4. Web site: Ghalib Institute . Ghalib Institute . 2014 . 12 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140811162839/http://www.ghalibinstitute.org/p/galib-award.html . 11 August 2014 . dead .
5. • Web site: Padma Awards . Padma Awards . 2014 . 11 November 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf . 15 October 2015 .
6. Book: Ghalib: Innovative Meanings and the Ingenious Mind. Gopi Chand Narang. Oxford University Press. 2017. 9780199091515.