Mohammed Baig Ehsas

Mohammed Baig Ehsas (Urdu: بیگ احساس‎, August 10, 1948 in Hyderabad)[1] is an Indian scholar and short story writer from Hyderabad. He served as the head of the Urdu department at Osmania University and University of Hyderabad. His short story collection Dukhma won the 2017 Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu.

Academic career

Ehsas enrolled as a PhD student at the University of Hyderabad in 1979, as part of the first batch of scholars at the newly formed Department of Urdu. His thesis on the life and work of Krishan Chander was completed in 1984. Following this, he accepted the position of Lecturer at Osmania University. He was the head of Department of Urdu Studies for two terms at Osmania between 2000–2002 and 2004–2006. He later served as head of the Urdu department at University of Hyderabad before retiring in 2013.[2][3][4]

Literary career

Ehsas is a short-story writer whose work is mainly concerned with chronicling the life of his native Hyderabad and its composite multilingual, multi-religious culture. He has written three short-story collections – Khusha-e-gandum, Hanzal, and Dukhma. The last work, centered around the lives of people living near a Parsi cemetery in Secunderabad, won the 2017 Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu.[4][5]

Ehsas has also published a collection of literary essays titled Shor-e-jahan.[5]

References
  1. "بیگ احساس" (in Urdu). Rekhta.org.
  2. "Department Profile". Osmania University. Retrieved January 6, 2019.
  3. Ashish Thomas (December 29, 2017). "Sahitya Academy Award for Baig Ehsas". University of Hyderabad Herald.
  4. "Sahitya Academy Award for Baig Ehsas". United News of India. December 28, 2017.
  5. Jayakrishnan (2018-01-06). "Hyderabad has a unique 'mili-juli' culture that no other city in India can boast of. But sadly, no one has written about it!". Times of India. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
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