Saraswati Saran Kaif: (Full name Saraswati Saran Shrivastava) was born at Mainpuri township in Etah district of Uttar Pradesh and died at Bhopal on July 23, 2007. He had shifted to Bhopal in 2002 and started residing with her daughter Meenakshi Verma at Arera Colony. Kaif was a poet par excellence of Urdu and Persian. His anthology titled "Lazzat-e-Karb" has been published while another one titled "Khumar-e-zeest" is under publication. Haryan Urdu Academy has also published his anthology titled "Shaoor Lashaoor" in 1983. Six of his manuscripts are with Meenakshi Verma. He had published 31 books on various subjects in Urdu, English and Hindi. He also had knowledge of Sanskrit, Punjabi, Arabic and French.