Mohd. Aslam Khan 

Born: November 14, 1960, Delhi.

Education: B.Com.

Literary Output: More than 100 plays for children.

Honour : 'Bhartendu Harishchandra Samman'-2013 (Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan, Lucknow).

Play: Ghulam Rishte

Have always been deeply impressed by my Late father, Mohd. Rafique Khan, as role model, who was in the Indian Army posted at Lahore when partition came in 1947. Not well disposed towards Pakistan, he elected to return to homeland, India. I have been seriously engaged in play-writing socially and for the All India Radio since 1979 both in the company and under guidance of nationally reputed playwrights and directors like Salim Arif, Dinesh Khanna, Shakha Bandopadhyay, Sant Ram et al. Five of the stage plays written by me that have attracted quite some attention, both of the viewers and the cognoscente are 'Khilono ki Baraat', 'Nawab Jhumer-II', 'Antim Praja', 'Kanteele Taar' and 'Ghulam Rishte'. Currently, busy writing-virtually complete Jo Main Aisa Janti'.

Long entrenched social malpractices impel me to write. I have allowed myself to be unconsciously mentored by the music teacher of K.V. School, Madam Bhattacharya, my moral beacon like the goddess Saraswati. William Shakespeare and Munshi Premchand have been the two other great influencers.

Children, I have loved, since my childhood and even today, while a grandfather, I am thrilled no end with emotion to watch tiny tots in their school uniforms preparing to leave for their morning classes or board the school bus. I had planned to write fifty stage plays for children. Right from the time of the Corona 'invasion' perhaps to beguile them, amuse them and enthuse them, also infuse in them thoughts a little loftier than banal about the society and the country they inhabit.

Music and art have always been the cornerstone of a nation's total progress. I am beholden to the Vani Group of Publications for appreciating and publishing my collection of The Childhood of Dreams, thus providing it a wider canvas and introducing it to a much larger audience. I thank them from the core of my heart. If you like these plays, kind readers, do say so and please write at the given address: