Braj Bihari Kachru was a friend of Kashmiri poet and writer Zinda Kaul Masterji.
Lala Sahab and his friends and colleagues had discussions on politics, literature and philosophy at his house.
[6] At the University of Illinois, Braj headed the Department of Linguistics (1968–79), directed the Division of English as an International Language (1985–91), and was director of the Center for Advanced Study (June 1996 – January 2000).
[citation needed] In 1998, he became the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University.
[citation needed] Next comes the outer circle, which includes countries where English is not the native tongue, but is important for historical reasons and plays a part in the nation's institutions, either as an official language or otherwise.
[citation needed] This circle includes India, Nigeria, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia, Tanzania, Kenya, non-Anglophone South Africa and Canada, etc.
[citation needed] Finally, the expanding circle encompasses those countries where English plays no historical or governmental role, but where it is nevertheless widely used as a foreign language or lingua franca.