Munshi Durga Sahai Suroor was born in December 1873 in Jahanabad, a town in the Pilibhit district.
[1] He was studious from his childhood and learned Arabic and Persian and elementary English.
[2] He worked in the editorial department of Zamana, a magazine published from Kanpur.
[2] His notable historical poems are Padmani, Padmani ki Chitah (The Funeral pyre of Padmani), Sitaji-ki-Giria-o-Zari (the Lament of Sita), Dasrat ki bekarari (The Tribulations of Maharaja Dasrat), Jamuna-Ganga, Sati, and Nur Jahan ka mazar (Tomb of Nur Jahan).
Much of his poetry is written in six-line stanzas or mussuddus, however he used many other forms like masnavi, rubai, qita, qasida and ghazal.