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Dr. Zoe Ansari, is a prominent name among’st Urdu literateurs. He was initially educated through the traditional system of the Madrassa, and went on to earn a Ph. D. in Linguistics from the Academy of Science in USSR. He was associated with the publications department at Moscow for a considerable number of years. After his return from USSR he was employed as a lecturer in Russian language at the Bombay University and later as head of the Department of foreign languages at the Bombay University.

He had majored in Arabic and was well versed with the Russian language and Literature. He has done significant translation work from the Russian language. He has also produced an Urdu – Russian and Russian – Urdu Dictionary. In short he has done substantial work to bring the two literature’s together and specially to bring Russian writers and literature to Urdu readers. He raised several controversies and debates in the Urdu circles when he published “Communist and mazhab”. However some time before his death he had explicitly distanced himself from the views expounded in the said publication.

He has also been an active journalist and has been associated with about a dozen of Urdu journals either as Editor, or Assistant Editor. He has over 15 books to his credit. His work has been referred to as a treasure house of the past. whereas his translations include Goerge Bernard Shaw, Pushkin and Chekov, he has also written on Ghalib, Amir Khusrau and and among’st more recent writers on Iqbal. He will be remembered as a journalist and commentator. However, his primary contribution to Urdu literature are his traslations and his commendable effort to produce an exhaustive Russian- Urdu and Urdu- Russian dictionary.