Aslam Parvez (born 1932), a poet himself, belongs to the first generation of educationists at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, the bastion of liberal thought, where he had served from 1972 to 1997. Earlier, he had taught at the historic Dilli College (now Zakir Husain Delhi College). He obtained his PhD from Delhi University and was the first scholar to write his doctoral dissertation (in 1965) on Bahadur Shah Zafar. An author of a dozen books, he has tried to build bridges between Hindi and Urdu and published a collection of poetry in Hindi, which has been greatly appreciated.