Kalidas Gupta Riza

Kalidas Gupta Riza
Born	1925 India
Died	2001
Occupation	Writer
Awards	Padma Shri Ghalib Award

Kalidas Gupta Riza (1925–2001) was an Indian writer^[1] and authority on the writings of the Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.^[2] He authored several books on Ghalib.^[3] A recipient of the Ghalib Award in 1987,^[4] he was honored by the government of India in 2001 with the fourth-highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.^[5] Riza's edition of Ghalib's Diwan Diwan-e-'Raza, published in 1995, supplanted Imtiaz Ali 'Arshi''s 1958 version as the most comprehensive and chronologically correct edition of Ghalib's Urdu poetry.^[6]

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^ Gopi Chand Narang (2017). Ghalib: Innovative Meanings and the Ingenious Mind. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199091515.