Background
ANAND, Mulk was born on December 12, 1905 in Peshawar. Son of Lalchand Anand and Ishwar Kaur.
ANAND, Mulk was born on December 12, 1905 in Peshawar. Son of Lalchand Anand and Ishwar Kaur.
Punjab and London Universities.
Writer and critic; lecturer, London County Council. British Broadcasting Corporation broadcaster, film script writer, British Ministry of Information. Edited (1956) various magazines.
Leverhulme Fellow for Research in Hindustani literature.
Former Editor Marg magazine, India. Professor, of Art and Literature, Punjab University, Chandigarh.
Fellow, National Academy, of Art, New Delhi. Padma Bhushan 1967; Doctor of Letters honorary degree (Delhi, Benares, Andhra, Patiala, Shantiniketan).
Indian National Academy, of Letters, Indian National Academy, of Arts, Indian National Book Trust.
Married 1st Kathleen van Gelder in 1939 (divorced in 1948), married 2nd Shirin Vajifdar in 1950.