Mehr Afshan Farooqi speaks to Mosarrap H Khan on Muhammad Hasan Askari, foremost Urdu author and critic in the middle decades of the twentieth century. She is presently working on a project that highlights the great Urdu poet Ghalib’s mustarad (rejected) verses. Farooqi writes a featured column on Urdu literature past and present in the Dawn. More recently she has published the acclaimed monograph, The Postcolonial Mind, Urdu Culture, Islam and Modernity in Muhammad Hasan Askari (2013). She is the editor of the pioneering two-volume work, The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature (2008). Farooqi is also a well-known translator, anthologist, and columnist. She is interested in bilingualism and how it impacts creativity. Her research publications address complex issues of Urdu literary culture, particularly in the context of modernity. A multiple gold medallist from Allahabad University, Farooqi is currently Associate Professor of Urdu and South Asian Literature at the University of Virginia. Mehr Afshan Farooqi grew up in Allahabad, India. Mehr Afshan Farooqi on Urdu writer and critic, Muhammad Hasan Askari
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