Mohammed Hasan Askari KhanmaaN Kharab

Mohammed Hasan Askari was an intellectual par excellence of the Indian subcontinent. He was a scholar, literary critic, writer and linguist of modern Urdu language. Initially "Westernized", he translated western literary, philosophical and metaphysical work into Urdu, notably classics of American, English, French and Russian literature. Muzaffer Ali Syed is also an Urdu critic who had written beautiful pen sketches of many of his friend's and senior's that were published in his book "Yadon ki Sargam". This book is a caricature of Askari, compliled by Aijaz Ubaid.