Syed Asghar Wajahat, popularly known as Asghar Wajahat (born 5 July 1946), is a Hindi scholar, fiction writer, novelist, playwright, an independent documentary filmmaker and a television scriptwriter,[1] who is most known for his work, 'Saat Aasmaan' and his acclaimed play, 'Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya, O Jamyai Nai', based on the story of an old Punjabi Hindu woman who gets left behind in Lahore, after the Partition of India, and then refuses to leave.

His work has been translated to many Indian and foreign languages A collection of his short stories in English entitled Lies: Half told (ISBN 81-87075-92-9) has also been published.

He has also been associated with reputed Hindi literary magazines like Hans and Vartaman Sahitya as guest editor for their special issues on ‘Indian Muslims: Present and Future’ and ‘Pravasi Sahity’.

Kidwai Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi.

[1] The play has also been performed in several regional languages, a version of it has also been directed by theatre director Dinesh Thakur, Abhijeet Choudhary from Swatantra Theatre, Pune and now veteran Bollywood director Rajkumar Santoshi plans to make a film on it.