Ehsan Danish was one of the most renowned man of letters and prolific Urdu poet and prose writer of the 20th century. Endowed with a refined literary taste and excellence over the accurate yet prolific use of Urdu diction, Ehsan was an epitome of stylistic writings in the generes of poetry, prose, linguistics, lexicology, prosody, autobiography and literary interpretations of contemporary writers.  ​

The literary journey of this self-made man started as Ehsan ul Haq, reshaped as Ehsan bin Danish and finally coined as Ehsan Danish. He was a workaholic person who struggled out through odd jobs e.g. mason, laborer, ink man, carpenter, cleaner, watchman. This does not inch him away from quenching the thirst of language and literature.

Destiny finally settled him in Lahore to earn his livelihood as a publisher. He established a publishing house namely Maktaba - e - Danish which enkindled the minds of thousands of students, teachers, literary figures and general public in India and Pakistan.

Ehsan Danish is well know as the shair -e- mazdoor (poet-laborer) due to his deep emotional appeal to the pangs and miseries of the laborer class. Being himself a laborer throughout his life, realistic portrayls of human sufferings, clash of the proletariat and the bourgeois and the struggle to live in a callous and ruthless aristoratic society truly emblemed the poetry and prose of Ehsan Danish.

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