Background
Raghupati Sahay was born into a Hindu Kayasth family in Gorakhpur in 1896.
Raghupati Sahay was born into a Hindu Kayasth family in Gorakhpur in 1896.
Allahabad University.
He established himself among peers including Muhammad Iqbal, Yagana Changezi, Jigar Moradabadi and Josh Malihabadi. He was selected for the Provincial Civil Service (Proceedings of the Chemical Society) and the Indian Civil Service (International Correspondence Schools ), but he resigned to follow Mahatma Gandhi"s Non-cooperation movement, for which he went to jail. Later, he joined Allahabad University as a lecturer in English literature.
During his life, he was given the positions of Research Professor at the University Grants Commission and Producer Emeritus by All India Radio.
After a long illness, he died on 3 March 1982, in New Delhi. As a distinguished poet, Firaq Gorakhpuri was well-versed in all traditional metrical forms such as ghazal, nazm, rubaai and qat"aa.
He was a prolific writer, having written more than a dozen volumes of Urdu poetry, a half dozen of Urdu prose, several volumes on literary themes in Hindi, as well as four volumes of English prose on literary and cultural subjects. The book included anecdotes from his life and translations of some of his best work.