Eminent Urdu critics, theorists and linguists Professor Gopi Chand Narang has passed away at 91.
He has been honoured with the Padma Bhushan (2004) and Sahitya Akademi Awards (1995). He was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia. He incorporated a range of modern theoretical frameworks, including stylistics, structuralism, post-structuralism and Sanskrit poetics. He was born in Dukki (now in present-day Baluchistan, Pakistan).