Asghar Wajahat

Syed Asghar Wajahat
Asghar Wajahat
Born(1946-07-05)July 5, 1946
Fatehpur Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
OccupationAuthor
LanguageHindi
NationalityIndian, Republic of India.
Notable works
  • Saat Aasmaan
  • Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya, O Jamyai Nai

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, 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.

He has published five collections of short stories, six collections of plays and street plays, and four novels.