Maikash Akbarabadi
Maikash Akbarabadi (1902–1991) was a writer in the Urdu language. Syed Mohammed Ali Shah Maikash Akbarabadi was born in 1902, in the Mewa Katra family, which traces its links in India to Moghul times. Personal life Muhammad Ali Shah Jafri Niyazi was the eldest son of Asghar Ali Shah Sahib who was the eldest son of Muzaffar Ali Shah Sahib, a renowned Sufi of his times and author of a huge book on Sufism which consists of three volumes entitled "Jawahar-e-Ghaibi". It is the best memorial of his literary accomplishments, published by Nawal Kishore Press Munshi Nawal Kishore. He was just two-and-a-half years old at the time of the death of his father, while his younger brother, Ahmed Ali Shah Saheb, was just three months old. The upbringing of these two very young children was left to their widowed mother who was then just twenty four years old. She was the granddaughter of Mir Aazam Ali, a contemporary of Ghalib Mirza Asad Ullah Khan Ghalib and belonged to a very respectable family. Despite pressures from certain sections upon her to go back to her parents' house, she stayed put and faced the challenges of life. She arranged for the best