Literary Career
He started writing poetry at an early age. His first volume of poems was published in 1941 with preface by the famous poet Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'. Since then, more than 50 volumes of his poems and 2 dramatic works in prose have been published, some of which have been digitized by the Digital Library of India. Six of his books have received awards from the Uttar Pradesh government and one has received an award from the Bihar government.
He has translated some of his poems in English in Gulab Khandelwal: Selected Poems, which was published in 1986 with preface by Dr. Karan Singh, ex-Prince of Kashmir. He has been the president of Archana a literary society of Kolkata founded in the fiftees and has presided over many events organized by literary organizations, such as Archana He has worked extensively with other Hindi poets.
For the last eighteen years he has been the president of Akhil Bhartiya Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Prayag. He is also the president of Bharati Parishad, an organization founded by Mahamana Madan Mohan Malaviya. For fifteen years he has been the senior member of the editorial board of ‘Vishwa Magazine’, a tri-monthly literary magazine published in Hindi in the U.S.A., the journal of the International Hindi Association He is currently the president of International Hindi Association.
Currently, he mostly lives in the U.S.A. but visits India every year and is still active in his literary pursuit. He has worked extensively with Indian organizations in the United States and has also presided on meetings in New York on "Vishwa Hindi Sammelan", an organization which strives towards the firm establishment of the Hindi language.
His poetry is unparalleled in both, quality and quantity. The full potential of his poetic work is yet to be discovered. He is still active after producing more than fifty volumes of poetry. At the age of 82, he wrote his auto-biography ज़िन्दगी है कोई किताब नहीं.
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