Barkat Ali Ghulam Husain Virani, known by his pen name Befaam, was born on November 25, 1923 in Ghanghali village in the Bhavnagar district. He was interested in literature from the age of fourteen, when he wrote his first ghazal. He was taught poetry by Qismat Qureshi and left his studies to participate in the 1942 Quit India Movement....