[1] His father, Devicharan Mathur, was a teacher in a local school and greatly admired music as well as literature.
On obtaining his law degree, Mathur initially worked as a lawyer, but subsequently joined the Delhi office of All India Radio.
[2] It was during his service in Doordarshan that mathur translated the popular gospel and civil rights movement song "We shall overcome" into Hindi as "Ham Honge Kaamyab" (हम होंगे कामयाब).
[2] Girijakumar Mathur started his career in literature in 1934 in the Braj language.Greatly influenced by authors such as Makhanlal Chaturvedi and Balkrishna Sharma 'Navin', he published his first anthology, 'Manjir' in 1941.
[2] Mathur described his life's journey in his autobiography Mujhe aur abhi kehna hai (मुझे और अभी कहना है) (I still have to say something).