Anand Narain Mulla (October 1901 – 13 June 1997) was an Indian

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. He served as a Member of Parliament in both the

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and the

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Life

Anand Narain Mulla was born at

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in the

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, in October 1901 and educated at Government Jubilee High School and College there. He won the Sahitya Akademi award in Urdu in 1964 for his poetry, specifically the book ''Meri Hadis-e-Umr-e-Gurezan''. His first collection of poems, ''Ju-yi shir'', published in 1949, was followed by ''Hans cog'' and ''Bamhina bol''. He was also a recipient of the Iqbal Samman, a literary award, when aged 92. His father, Jagat Narain Mulla, was an advocate and government prosecutor. Anand Narain Mulla, a Kashmiri Brahmin, was himself a lawyer. In 1954 he became a judge of the

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, which he remained until 1961. Mulla was a member of the

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(1967–1970), elected as an Independent candidate from the Lucknow constituency. He was later elected as a

member (1972–1978) as a nominee of the governing

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party. Mulla died in New Delhi on 12 June 1997, aged 96 years.

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