Tag: Urdu Scholar

New Delhi : Leading Urdu scholar Professor Gopi Chand Narang passed away on Wednesday at Charlotte in North Carolina after a brief illness, his son said. He was 91 and is survived by his wife, Manorma Narang, and his sons Arun Narang and Tarun Narang, and grandchildren. He was born in 1930 in the small town of Dukki in Baluchistan, located on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. After earning his doctoral degree in Urdu literature from Delhi University in 1958, Professor Narang took an academic position at St. Stephens...