Asghar wajahat biography samples

Indian Hindi scholar and writer

Syed Asghar Wajahat, popularly known as Asghar Wajahat (born 5 July 1946), is a Hindi scholar, fiction writer, novelist, playwright, an independent documentary filmmaker and a television scriptwriter,^[1] who is most known for his work, 'Saat Aasmaan' and his acclaimed play, 'Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya, O Jamyai Nai', based on the story of an old Punjabi Hindu woman who gets left behind in Lahore, after the Partition of India, and then refuses to leave.^[2]

He has published five collections of short stories, six collections of plays and street plays, and four novels.^[3][4]

Biography

Syed Asghar Wajahat was born on 5 July 1946 in the city of Fatehpur, in Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh.

He completed his MA (Hindi) in 1968, and his PhD in 1974, also from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), later he did his Post Doctoral Research from Jawaharlal Nehru University (1981–83). And by 1960, while stil