Kalidas Gupta Riza
Indian writer
About Kalidas Gupta Riza
Lived 1925 – 2001 (aged 75–76). Kalidas Gupta Riza was an Indian.
Kalidas Gupta Riza (1925–2001) was an Indian writer and authority on the writings of the Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib. He authored several books on Ghalib. A recipient of the Ghalib Award in 1987, he was honored by the government of India in 2001 with the fourth-highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.
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.
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Who was Kalidas Gupta Riza?
Indian writer
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Kalidas Gupta Riza was born in 1925 in India.
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Kalidas Gupta Riza died on 21 March 2001.
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Kalidas Gupta Riza was Indian.
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