Keshav Malik (05 November 1924 - 11 June 2014) worked as the Literary Editor of Thought and later as the Editor of Indian Literature, a bi-monthly published by the Sahitya Akademi (the National Academy of Letters).
He published twenty volumes of his verse besides a book of short stories and edited several anthologies of poetry. His verse has been translated into several Indian and foreign languages. He was the first President of The Poetry Society (India) as ...
Good writing has to do with the opening of the mind’s eye to truths rooted in, but moving beyond our diurnal – too familiar – existence. If these, not infrequently vision laced verses have a common theme, it is of the marvelous told transparently, and the plain found to be astonishing, as much as the repeated coming back to life of the heart from its routine demise, that is, from the trivial that right now so much forms the content of metropolitan life. ...