Athar Aziz was born on 25 June, 1944, at Cuttack in the state of Odisha. After getting his early education in Muzaffarnagar, he acquired his bachelor’s degree in science. He worked at Allahabad, Delhi, and Bhubaneshwar before settling in Mumbai and working for the well-known daily Inquilab, apart from pursuing his job as a publisher. He published a poetry collection entitled Sood-o-Ziyaan.
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