aaj ik aur baras biit gayā us ke baġhair
jis ke hote hue hote the zamāne mere
Gopal Mittal is known as a poet, writer and editor of discriminating taste. He was born on 11 June, 1901 at Maler Kotla in the eastern part of Punjab. He got his B. A. degree from Sanatan Dharm College, Lahore. In 1948, he migrated to Delhi where he later started editing and publishing a literary journal called Tehreek which acquired a name for itself among the discriminating readers of Urdu literature.