Urdu Scholar Gopi Chand Narang Passes Away

Eminent Urdu scholar and former president of Sahitya Akademi Prof. Gopi Chand Narang passed away on 15^th June 2022.

Born in Dukki town of Balochistan, Prof. Narang inherited the love for Urdu literature from his father.
In 1995, Prof. Narang won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his comprehensive work Sakhtiyat, Pas-Sakhtiyat aur Mashriqui Sheriyat (Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and Eastern Poetics).
He was the first Urdu scholar to receive the Padma Bhushan (2004) and Pakistan’s Sitara-e-Imtiaz.