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Asghar Wajahat was born on 5 July, 1946 in Fatehpur Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India., is an An indian male dramatist and playwright. Discover Asghar Wajahat's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?
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77 years old |
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Cancer |
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5 July 1946 |
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5 July |
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Fatehpur Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India. |
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India
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Asghar Wajahat Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Asghar Wajahat Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Asghar Wajahat worth at the age of 77 years old? Asghar Wajahat’s income source is mostly from being a successful Author. He is from India. We have estimated Asghar Wajahat's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Syed Asghar Wajahat, popularly known as Asghar Wajahat (असग़र वजाहत) (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.
Syed Asghar Wajahat was born on 5 July 1946 in the city of Fatehpur, in Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh.
And by 1960, while still studying at the Aligarh Muslim University, he had already started writing.
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).
He joined Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in 1971 as a lecturer of Hindi, and later became a Professor and also the Head of the Department of Hindi in the university.
Asghar Wajahat, Professor of Hindi at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi is a reputed Hindi writer also.
He has published 20 books including five novels, six full-length plays, five collections of short stories, a travelogue, a collection of street plays and a book on literary criticism.
He has also written film scripts and conducted workshops on screen writing.
Wajahat has also been involved in Hindi cinema as a scriptwriter since 1975.
He himself has made few documentary films including a 20-minute on the development of Urdu Ghazal.
He has been honoured by several literary organisations for his contribution to Hindi literature.
An Italian translation of his stories was published by Centro de Studio de documentation, Universitá degli Studio de Venezia, in 1987.
Apart from his fiction, Wajahat regularly writes for various newspapers and magazines.
His most noted Partition play, 'Jin Lahore Nai Dekhya', was first performed under the direction of Habib Tanvir in 1989, who subsequently took the play to Karachi, Lahore, Sydney, New York and Dubai.
The play has also been performed in several regional languages, a version of it has also been directed by theatre director Dinesh Thakur, Abhijeet Choudhary from Swatantra Theatre, Pune and now veteran Bollywood director Rajkumar Santoshi plans to make a film on it.
Katha (UK), a London-based organisation gave him the ‘Best novel of the year award’ in 2005 for his novel Kaisi Aagi Lagai.
Presently, he is Professor of Hindi, Jamia Millia Islamia.
He was also the officiating director, A.J. Kidwai Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi.
He has been placed among the top ten Hindi writers according to a survey conducted by Outlook (Hindi) magazine in 2007.
His work has been translated to many Indian and foreign languages
A collection of his short stories in English entitled Lies: Half told (ISBN 81-87075-92-9) has also been published.
He was guest Editor of BBCHindi.com for three months in 2007.
He has also been associated with reputed Hindi literary magazines like Hans and Vartaman Sahitya as guest editor for their special issues on ‘Indian Muslims: Present and Future’ and ‘Pravasi Sahity’.
Asgar Wajahat will be awarded the 31st Vyas Samman for his play Mahabali, which was published in 2019.
