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{{Infobox person
| name = Gopal Mittal<br /><small>{{Nastaliq|گوپال مِتّل}}</small>
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| birth_name = Gopal Mittal
| birth_date = {{birth year|1906}}
| birth_place = [[Malerkotla]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{death year and age|1993|1906}}
| death_place = [[Delhi]], [[India]]
| nationality = Indian
| other_names =
| known_for = [[Nazm]]s, [[Ghazal]]s and [[Qat'aa]]s
| occupation = Poet, writer, journalist
}}

'''Gopal Mittal''' (1906–1993)<ref>{{cite web|author=Urdu Authors: Date list as on 31 May 2006 – S.No. 673 |title=Gopal Mittal; maintained by National Council for Promotion of Urdu, Govt. of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development |url=http://www.urducouncil.nic.in/urdu_wrld/u_auth/index_all.htm |access-date=28 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301184839/http://www.urducouncil.nic.in/urdu_wrld/u_auth/index_all.htm |archive-date=1 March 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> ([[Urdu]]: گوپال مِتّل) was an [[Urdu poet]], writer, critic and journalist.

==Biography==
Gopal Mittal was born on 6 June 1906 in [[Malerkotla]], [[Punjab, India]]. His father, Walayati Ram Jain, was a renowned practitioner of [[Unani]] medicine. After completing his schooling in [[Malerkotla]] as a student of Malerkotla High School, and college education in 1932 as a student of [[Sanatan Dharma College]], Lahore, he joined "Subah e Ummid" a newspaper published from [[Ludhiana]] that soon folded up. He then joined "Shahkar" published by Maulana Tajwar Najeebabadi from [[Lahore]], and alongside also wrote for "Jagat Laxmi", a Film-magazine. He lived in [[Lahore]] till August 1947 and thereafter moved to [[Delhi]] where he worked for the Daily Urdu newspapers, "Milap" and "Tej". In 1953 he left this employment and started publication of Monthly Tahreek that he also edited.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=8120728939 |title=Masterpieces of Patriotic Urdu Poetry: Text, Translation, and Transliteration – K. C. Kanda – Google Books |date= |access-date=28 September 2012}}</ref><ref name="google1">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=8126011947 |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: devraj to jyoti – Amaresh Datta – Google Books |date= |access-date=28 September 2012}}</ref> From 1956 to 1979, [[Makhmoor Saeedi]] was the Joint Editor of this magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/04/stories/2010030460270500.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100314222022/http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/04/stories/2010030460270500.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 March 2010 |title=Other States / Rajasthan News : Eminent Urdu poet Saeedi passes away |date=4 March 2010 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=28 September 2012}}</ref>

Gopal Mittal was 87 years old when he died in [[Delhi]] on 15 April 1993.

==Literary life==
Gopal Mittal was a progressive writer and a creative writer. He has written some of the finest verses on "man and his destiny." "His complete works published in 1994 contain a rich fare of ghazals, nazms and qatas besides diadactic and religious verses." He was a more fluent writer of [[nazm]]s.<ref name="google1"/> Till date four collections of his nazms, ghazals and qatas have come to light, they are – 1) ''Dorahaa'', 2) ''Saharaa Mein Azaan'', 3) ''Sharaar e naghmaa'' and 4) Sachche Bole. He had also penned his memoirs titled – Lahore kaa jo zikr kiyaa
({{ISBN|9789693515428}}). His complete works, titled ''Kulliyaat e Gopal Mittal'', were published after his demise.

His life and works were commented upon and appraised by leading poets and writers – [[Jagan Nath Azad]], Makhmur Saeedi, [[Wazir Agha]], Balraj Komal, Hamidi Kashmiri, Bani, Hayatullah Ansari, Rashid Hasan Khan, Azad Gulati, [[Krishan Mohan]], [[Zia Fatehabadi]] and Nazir Siddiqi, whose assessments were compiled and edited by Kumar Pashi and published in 1983 titled ''Gopal Mittal – shakhsiyat aur fan'' ({{ISBN|9788180421815}}). Earlier a similar earlier exercise conducted and later on compiled by Muhammad Abdulhakim titled ''Gopal Mittal – ek mutalia'' was published by Nazish Book Centre in 1977.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UkUMAQAAIAAJ |title=Gopal Mittal – Muḥammad ʻAbdulḥakīm – Google Books |date=1 August 1992 |access-date=28 September 2012|last1=ʻabdulḥakīm |first1=Muḥammad }}</ref> In 2005 an appraisal of his poetry conducted by Ziyauddin was published titled ''Gopal Mittal: Shakhs Va Shair''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abebooks.com/9788185785400/Gopal-Mittal-Shakhs-Shair-Ziyauddin-818578406/plp |title=9788185785400: Gopal Mittal: Shakhs Va Shair – AbeBooks – Ziyauddin: 8185785406 |publisher=AbeBooks |date= |access-date=28 September 2012}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
Urdu Poetry:
* ''Doraahaa'' (1944)
* ''Saharaa mein azaan'' (1970)
* ''Sharaar e naghmaa'' (1984)
* ''Sachche Bole'' (1988)
* ''Kulliyaat e Gopal Mittal'' (1994)

Memoirs:
* ''Lahore ka jo zikr kiya''

==References==
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[[Category:People from Sangrur district]]
[[Category:Urdu-language poets from India]]
[[Category:Hindu poets]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]
[[Category:Indian male poets]]
[[Category:Poets from Punjab, India]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]

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