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Arjumand Ara

Professor Arjumand Ara is one of the most accomplished and versatile scholars of Urdu literature working in India today. A professor in the Department of Urdu at the University of Delhi, she has built over two decades of distinguished service as a teacher, literary...

Arshia Sattar

Arshia Sattar (b. 1960) is one of India’s most distinguished literary scholars and translators, celebrated for her influential work in bringing Sanskrit classical literature to contemporary audiences. With a career spanning over three decades, she has become a...

Ashraf Rafi

Professor Ashraf Rafi, born on August 4, 1940, in Hyderabad, emerged from the city’s rich Urdu milieu to become one of contemporary India’s most distinguished scholars of Urdu literature. Over a career spanning more than five decades, she has made...

Asif Jahan Begam

Asif Jahan Begam was a Muslim woman writer from Hyderabad (Deccan) who was active from at least the 1910s through the 1930s and 1940s. Her life and workplace are squarely within what scholars have described as an unbroken 150-year tradition of women’s prose...

Asiya Zahoor

Asiya Zahoor is a distinguished Kashmiri poet, filmmaker, and scholar from Baramulla, renowned for her multifaceted contributions to literature, cinema, and academic research. A former Sanford H. Taylor Post-doctoral Fellow at Cornell University, she has emerged as a...