Fikr Taunsvi
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Fikr Taunsvi real name Ram Lal Bhatia (7 October 1918 – 12 September 1987) was an Urdu poet, born in a village of Taunsa Sharif, now part of Pakistan. He was famous for his satires and was a Hindu by religion.[1][2][3] He wrote twenty books in Urdu and eight in Hindi.[4]
His father, Dhanpat Rai, was a shopkeeper in the Baloch tribal area of Taunsa Sharif. village name was Mangrotha which is about 04 km from Taunsa Sharif. Taunsvi married Shrimati Kailashwati, in 1944. He has three children Rani, Phool Kumar and Suman.
He studied up to higher secondary school at Taunsa Sharif and higher education from Lahore. He migrated to Delhi after partition of the sub-continent. His favorite city was Lahore which according to him was attached to his soul. The decision of partition dejected him a lot.
He died on 12 September 1987.
