Saif Mahmood

Saif Mahmood is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of India and an International lawyer, writer, scholar and public speaker who divides time between the UK and India. Author of the bestselling 'Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City & Her Greatest Poets' (2018), he speaks and writes on Urdu poetry, culture and literary heritage. A widely-recognized South Asian name in the Urdu world, he advises many literary and cultural organizations in the UK and India. Saif holds a doctorate in law and has, of late, been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, working on the Mughal State's treatment of Urdu poets of resistance and dissent.