While Firaq was also an expert in English and made significant contributions to the language, it was Urdu that made him famous. Prominent Hindi litterateur Prof Awadhesh Pradhan, while highlighting ...
W.H. Auden was, in the final decade of his life, an extraordinarily unattractive man, and was keenly aware of it. "My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain," he told an interviewer in ...