Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi D.Litt (HC), SI, HI (Urdu: مشتاق احمد يوسفی)(born August 4, 1923) is anUrdu satirical and humor writer from Pakistan. Yousufi has also served as the head of several national and international governmental and financial institutions. He received Sitara-e-Imtiazand Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the highest literary honors by the Government of Pakistan in 1999.
Biography
Yousufi was born in a learned family of Tonk, Rajasthan on August 4, 1923. His father Abdul Karim Khan Yousufi was chairman of theJaipur Municipality, and later Speaker of the Jaipur Legislative Assembly.Yousufi completed his early education in Rajputana and earnedB.A. from Agra University while M.A. Philosophy and LL.B from Aligarh University.After partition of India his family migrated to Karachi, Pakistan.
Family
Married Idrees Fatima - an Urdu teacher and daughter of Manzoor Ahmed Khan, former District and Session Judge of India. Has two sons and two daughters; Arshad, Sarosh, Rukhsana and Seema.
Career
Joined Muslim Commercial Bank in 1950, became Deputy General Manager. Joined Allied Bank Ltd in 1965 as Managing Director. In 1974 he became President of United Bank Ltd. In 1977 became Chairman of the Pakistan Banking Council. Awarded Quaid-i-Azam Memorial Medal for distinguished services in banking.
Excerpts
A few lines from his book:
"No sooner had I received the salary, I bought grocery and other items for the household so that the dog I had brought home could guard these items. For us parents I pointed out the advantage of having a dog by submitting that after all it was an Englishman's dog... even an illiterate person in our country gives an English name to his dog and always calls him or reprimands him in English, therefore, it was obvious that because of this dog our children would learn English!"
Critics and contemporaries
Ibn-e-Insha, himself an Urdu satirist and humourist, wrote about Yousufi: "...if ever we could give a name to the literary humour of our time, then the only name that comes to mind is that of Yousufi!" Another scholar, Dr Zaheer Fatehpuri, wrote, "We are living in the 'Yousufi era' of Urdu literary humour..." The Yousufi era started from 1961 when Yousufi's first book Chiragh talay was published. So far 11 editions of this book have appeared. It has a foreword titled 'Pahla pathhar' written by the author himself plus 12 satirical and humorous articles. In 2008, he is living in Karachi and often appeared in TV programs as well as seminars.
Awards
Sitara-i-Imtiaz
Hilal-i-Imtiaz
Quaid-i-Azam (Memorial Medal)
Pakistan Academy of Letters Award
Hijra Award
Bibliography
Chiragh talay (1961)
Khakam-ba-dahan (1969)
Zarguzasht (1976)
Aab-i-gum (1990)
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