Saif Mahmood is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of India and an international lawyer, writer, scholar, and public speaker who divides his time between the UK and India. He is the author of the bestselling Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City & Her Greatest Poets (2018) and frequently speaks and writes on Urdu poetry, culture, and literary heritage. A widely recognized name in the South Asian Urdu world, Saif advises several literary and cultural organizations in both the UK and India. He holds a doctorate in law and is a Visiting Academic at the University of Oxford, where he researches the Mughal state’s treatment of Urdu poets of resistance and dissent.
