Keshav Malik

His younger sister is arts and dance scholar Kapila Vatsyayan and brother Bhashi Malik.

During the 1950s, Malik studied Renaissance art in Florence, French at the Sorbonne, and attended lectures at Columbia University.

[4] In 1973–74, Malik was curator for "The Human Condition," an exhibition of contemporary Indian art that travelled to Bulgaria, Poland, Belgium, and Yugoslavia.

[3] Malik has published 18 volumes of poetry, including The Lake Surface and Other Poems, Storm Warning, and Between Nobodies and Stars.

[3] He also remained an advisor to the National Gallery of Modern Art and an executive board member to the Lalit Kala Akademi.