u/Significant-Band1991

The Person on the right is Shiv Kumar batalvi who was a Punjabi poet who shared pretty much the same story as franz Kafka . Both had authoritarian father who discouraged their artistic passion and wanted them to join a stable job. Both wrote about pain and suffering Kafka wrote about existential and bureaucratic dread while Batalvi wrote about romantic agony . Batalvi was known as sultanate e Birha (king of separation) . Finally both predicted they will die early and they did prematurely die in their late 30s