Sajjad Zaheer
Syed Sajjad Zaheer was an Urdu writer, Marxist ideologue and radical revolutionary who worked in both India and Pakistan. In the pre-independence era, he was a member of the Communist Party of India. Upon independence and partition, he moved to the newly created Pakistan and became a founding member of the Communist Party of Pakistan.Revolutionary writer
A collection of short stories, Angaaray, which had stories by Sajjad Zaheer, Ahmed Ali, Rashid Jahan and Mahmud-uz-Zafar was published in 1932 and banned in 1933 by the British Government of India "for hurting the religious susceptibilities of a section of the community." This gave rise to the All-India Progressive Writers' Movement & Association of which both Sajjad Zaheer and Ahmed Ali were co-founders.Sajjad and his wife Razia Sajjad Zaheer had four daughters, including Naseem Bhatia, who holds a PhD in History from a Russian university.Published writings
- London Ki Ek Raat لندن کی ایک رات - a novel.
- Roshnai روشنائی, a collection of essays on the progressive writers movement and its objectives.
- Zikr-e-Hafiz زکرِخافظ, his research based book on the Persian poet Hafez.
- Pighla Nilamپِگھلا نیلم, his last book,a collection of his poetry.
- A translation of Shakespeare's Othello
- A translation of Candide
- A translation of Gora
- A translation of The Prophet
