Neelabh was born in
Mumbai on 16 August 1945. His father was Hindi writer
Upendranath Ashk. He graduated in Commerce and completed his master's degree from Department of Hindi,
Allahabad University. Both the times he scored first positions in his batch of 60s. In 1980, he started working with
BBC London's foreign broadcasting department of Hindi as a producer for four years. His published 24 poems on his experiences in London in the
London Diary Series. He also handled work of their publishing house which was named after him as "Neelabh Prakashan". Ashk married two times. He separated from his first wife, after she died, he married second time girl named Bhumika Dwivedi Ashk, another writer, artist and social worker . He left his parental home of Allahabad and moved to Delhi. Ashk died at his Delhi residence on the morning of 23 July 2016 after a long illness at the age of 70. His funeral took place the same afternoon at Nigam Bodh Ghat. Various authors and writer's associations expressed grief on his death. On his death, contemporary Hindi poet
Manglesh Dabral said that he lived an "unfulfilled life" and praised his "deep knowledge" of the English, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi languages. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari, chairperson of
Sahitya Akademi called him "a revolutionary poet". ==Works==