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gorakhpur , uttar pradesh , india 200px anusha rizvi mahmood farooqui
 mahmood farooqui film director and screenwriter the doon school university of oxford
mahmood farooqui

mahmood farooqui is an indian writer , artist and director .
he specializes in a type of story-telling known as `` dastangoi '' .
in `` besieged : voices from delhi 1857 '' farooqui published a series of his translations of texts representing the views of those besieged in delhi in 1857 .
he was a researcher for white mughals , a book by william dalrymple .
farooqui along with his uncle noted urdu poet and literary critic shamsur rahman faruqi have played significant roles in dastangoi 's revival in the 21st century .
