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Harbans Bhalla (1930-1993) was born in Parsur now in Sialkot dist of Pakistan. After Partition in 1947 he moved to India . A prolific writer who has more than 14 books published to his credit in various languages . Harbans Bhalla was a scholar in Persian Shahmukhi and Urdu language and had a quest for achieving the pinnacle of these languages. He started a unique feat of penning down the longest ever book in a poetic form and has authored the longest ever poetry written comprising of 70000 verses or rhymed couplets titled Peelay Pattar . A total of 140000 lines with more than 15 lakh words . He took fourteen years to complete this work. Thus broke a 10th century record of 60 thousand verse poetry in the name of Phirdousi or Ferdowsi who took 35 years to write Shâhnameh . Peelay Pattar is a poetry touching a vast variety of topics.