Urdu Scholar Gopi Chand Narang Passes Away

• 16 Jun 2022

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.