Person

Malik, Keshav

1924–2014

born November 5, 1924 in Miani, Indian poet, art and literary critic, arts scholar, and curator, graduated from the Amar Singh College, Srinagar in 1945, was a personal assistant to Jawaharlal Nehru from 1947-1948, studied Renaissance art in Florence, French at the Sorbonne, and attended lectures at Columbia University, worked as art critic for the Hindustan Times from 1960-1972, and The Times of India from 1975-2000, was awarded the Padma Shri for literature in 1991 by the Government of India, died on June 11, 2014 in New Delhi