[3] Girilal Jain was born in Piplikhera[4] in Sonipat district, which falls in Delhi National Capital Region.
[7] Khushwant Singh wrote that, towards the end of his career, Girilal Jain's writings showed a "distinct anti-Muslim, anti-Sikh and anti-Christian bias.
[9][10] After retirement, he wrote on the core issues of pre independence and post partition suffering of Hindus and penned the book The Hindu Phenomenon, which was edited and published by his daughter Meenakshi Jain posthumously.
[8] Girilal Jain welcomed the movement for the Ram Temple at Ayodhya as part of the process of long lost justice for Hindus.
[14] Jain was criticized by Rep. Duke Cunningham in the Congressional Record of 28 September 1996 for his 1982 Times of India editorial titled "De-Turbaning of Sikhs" for its anti-Sikh bias.