Marghoob Banihali

Marghoob Banihali (born 1937) is a pen name of Ghulam Mohammad Giri, a Kashmiri poet from Bankoot, Banihal, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Marghoob lost his mother when he was 8, and father when he was 14. He worked in various capacities at the University of Kashmir, in the Department of Kashmiri Language, the Department of Central Asian Studies, and the Iqbal Institute.