Gopaldas Neeraj was a Hindi author, teacher, a frequent participant at many a poetry readings and songwriter for Hindi cinema. He was born on 4 January 1925, in the united province of Avadh and Agra in British India, now known as Uttar Pradesh, to Babu Brajkishore Saxena, in Purawali village near Maheva, Itwah. He was the first person to have been awarded both the Padma Shree and Padma Bhushan by the government of India.These poems lead one from despair to hope. The more delicate feelings of romance among lovers, the thirst and longing, the passion and pleasure in the beautiful words of this masterful bard, these poems speak of pure, untainted love while also serving as inspiring reminders to keep struggling and moving forward because this life is worth living.
