Mohammad Ahsan
Sayeed was born in December 1920 in Hyderabad Deccan. His father Dr Lateef Sayeed was the secretary of the Indian National Congress of Hyderabad state, a journalist, and friend to Rabindranath Tagore, to the Nizam of Hyderabad, to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and to Jawaharlal Nehru. Syed Mohammad Ahsan, the Chief of Naval Staff of the Pakistan Navy from 1966 to 1969, was his first cousin.