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+ 	SAIN SUCHA + 	Pen name: Sain Sucha + 	Real name: Mushtaq Ahmad + 	Birth: 12 April, 1941. Sahiwal, Pakistan. + 	Education: B.Sc (Punjab University), Fil. Kand (Stockholms university). + 	Employment: Labourer, Research Chemist, Car Assembler, Book Salesman, Photographer, Disc Jockey, Club Master, Importer, Taxi Driver and Publisher. + 	Homepage: www.vudya.se 	+ E-mail: vudya@vudya.se 	+ + 	Short Sketch: Though his birth is registered in Sahiwal, his parents were from Mozang. Lahore; and he spent first nineteen years of his life there. He studied in Islamia College Lahore (1956-58), and Govt. College Lahore (1958-60) and took his BSc degree in Zoology, Chemistry and English. He arrived in Britain in 1960, and lived mainly in Kingston-upon-Thames. After various temporary jobs he worked as an assistant research chemist in British Food Making Industries Research Association, Leatherhead, Surrey, 1961-65. According to him that was the most important phase in his life. Kingston-upon-Thames, because of its Technical High School, was a centre for students from all over the world. In Kingston and at the Esher International Club, Esher, Surrey, he had the opportunity of meeting youth from ninety-two different countries. He discovered that our apparent differences were limited to our sight; but once one crossed that border and went beyond visual perception then we all longed for mutual understanding, companionship and affection. Although the Britain of that time openly showed signs of racism -- it was not uncommon to see signs saying "Black and Brown are not boarded here" at houses that rented rooms -- he found his co-workers at BFMIRA rather free from all prejudices and young people like Roger, Rupert, Terry, Bob, Sheila, Lynn, Marion, Margaret, Evelyn, Anne and Claire accepted him as a member of their group. Besides, all those lies that he had heard in Pakistan about who were his enemies, friends and religious leaders and brothers (Arabs) were washed away within a few months: most of the Sikh and Hindu boys, along with other Pakistanis from Lahore and Karachi, in Kingston were his pals; Bengalis, despite them being his compatriots, were birds of quite different feather, and he found Arab youngsters extreme raw and non-spiritual. Experience also confirmed that for any kind of emotional nearness the linguistic affinity was most important, thereafter came culture, while compatriotship and religion came long afterwards. + 	In 1965 he migrated to Sweden and came face to face with democracy, humanism and sexuality in a completely new way. He learnt that shamelessness was not based in nudity, but in the filth we carry on our body and mind that we try to conceal under various clothing and devious ways. Democracy was not the name of putting a voting coupon in a box, but was, first and foremost, the knowledge that tells us about our duties and obligations and, after making us conscientious and responsible persons, gives us the ability to choose between the right and wrong. At Stockholm University he studied Philosophy, Social Anthropology and Indology (1966-70). At the student hostel Kungshamra, Solna, he lived with about 1200 students. The hostel was a unique experiment where for the first time ever single and married students with their families were settled in the same area. The hostel had a representative student union that arranged various activities and negotiated on behalf of its members. There he performed as the Club Master and ran the Taverna. + 	In 1973 he abandoned all orthodox religious affinities and chose Humanism as his mode of living. + 	He wrote his first short story in 1956 and wrote seven more till 1960. He was an active member of Hulqa Ahbab´ Adab, Mozang, where they held a weekly literary meeting and presented both prose and poetry for criticism. From 1960 to 1983 he did not write much because struggle for survival and lust for learning competed with each other. Thereafter he has written as the time allowed or the thoughts emerged! + 	Publications: + 	1- The Roots of Misery, 1985. + 	2- Människans Anrop, Poems of Ahmad Faraz translated into Swedish. 1986 	+ 	3- Inte Ensam, poems of Faiz Ahmad Faiz translated into Swedish. 1987 	+ 	4- Memory, poems of Faiz Ahmad Faiz translated into English. 1987 	+ 	5- Discourses with IT, seven short stories in English. 1987 	+ 	6- Möte med DET, Swedish version of seven short stories. 1988 	+ 	7- Sorcery, poems of Sahir Ludhianvi translated into English. 1989 	+ 	8- Search for Identity, an anthology of Urdu/Punjabi/Hindi writers from South-Asia who attended a meeting held in Sweden 1n 1989 in original languages and their translation into English. 1991 	+ 	9- A Broken Man, translation of Khalid Sohail’s novel, Toota huwa Aadmi, into English. 1992 	+ 	10- Chutkian, eight short stories and three essays in Urdu. 1994 	+ 	11- Sochain!, five short stories along with five stories by Saeed Anjum, in Urdu. 1996 	+ 	12- Reflektion, Swedish version of fifteen short stories. 2000 	+ 	13. Reflections, English version of sixteen short stories. 2002 	+ 	Anthologies: + 	Insha's Almi Urdu Afsane, 1992. Insha Publications, Calcutta, India. + 	Scandinavian Urdu Literature, 1995. Insha Publications, Calcutta, India. + 	Världen i Sverige, 1995. En bok för alla, Stockholm, Sweden. + 	Om orden fattar eld, 1998. Sollentuna Författarsällskap, Sollentuna, Sweden. + 	ORDgärningar, 2000. Sollentuna Författarsällskap, Sollentuna, Sweden. + 	När tankarna dansar, 2000. Sollentuna Författarsällskap, Sollentuna, Sweden. + 	Guftni, Urdu prose writers, 2000. Meher Book Foundation, Walnut, Callifornia, USA. + 	Slaget vid Rotebro och andra historier, 2001. Sollentuna Forfattarsällskap, Sollentuna, Sweden. + 	URDU PROSE WRITERS OF 20th CENTURY IN THE WEST, 2002. Institute of Third World Art & Literature, Hounslow (Meddlex), UK. ISBN 0 948977 32 9 + 	Dagdroppar, 2002. Sollentuna Författarsällskap, Sollentuna, Sweden. ISBN 91 86620 29 0 + 	Det går an – igen 2003. Sollentuna Författarsällskap, Sollentuna, Sweden. ISBN 91 86620 30 4 + 	Möten –ordsatta bilder- 2006. Sollentuna Författarsällskap, Sollentuna, Sweden. ISBN 91 86620 34 7 + 	Makhzan -4 2005. Edited by Maqsood Ellahi Sheikh, Bradford, UK 	+ Makhzan -6 2007. Edited by Maqsood Ellahi Sheikh, Bradford, UK