His short story collection Dukhma won the 2017 Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu.
He died on 8 September 2021 at the age of 73 in Asian Institute of Gastroenterology Hospital Hyderabad Telangana.
[2] Ehsas enrolled as a PhD student at the University of Hyderabad in 1979, as part of the first batch of scholars at the newly formed Department of Urdu.
He later served as head of the Urdu department at University of Hyderabad before retiring in 2013.
[3][4][5] Ehsas is a short-story writer whose work is mainly concerned with chronicling the life of his native Hyderabad and its composite multilingual, multi-religious culture.