Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t34.2

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Born in Wazirabad, Gujranwala (present day Punjab in Pakistan), he lived in Poonch, Kashmir with his father when he was a teenager. He went to the Forman Christian College of Punjab University to study medical science in 1929 and became interested in English literature. He obtained his Master’s degree in English language and literature in 1935, and obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Law in Lahore College of Law in 1937. During this period, he was hired as the editor-in-chief of ‘*The Northern Review*’ and ‘*The Modern Girl*’, a monthly in English. From 1939 to 1943, he was appointed as a Director of All India Radio and later a Producer Director in Shalimar Film Company. He joined the Indian Progressive Writers’ Association in the early 1940s, was elected as a Director of Indian Peace Council after the division of India in 1947, and appointed as the General Secretary of the Indian Progressive Writers’ Association in 1953. He once visited China as a member of a delegation in the 1950s and contributed to the exchange of Chinese and Indian literary circles.