Raza Ali Abidi
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Raza Ali Abidi رضا علی عابدی | |
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| Born | 30 November 1935 |
| Occupation | broadcaster, journalist, author |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Genre | Travelogues, Fiction and Popular History |
| Employer(s) | BBC Urdu Service (1972 - 1996) Columnist at Jang Group of Newspapers (2013 to present) |
Raza Ali Abidi (Urdu: رضا علی عابدی; born 30 November 1935) is a Pakistani journalist and broadcaster best known for his radio documentaries on the Grand Trunk Road in Pakistan (also known as Sher Shah Suri Marg in India) and his travelogue along the banks of the Indus River. His published works include several collections of cultural essays and short stories. He worked with the BBC Urdu Service until his retirement in 1996.[1]
Raza Ali Abidi was born in 1935 in Roorkee, a city in the Saharanpur District of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. He moved to Karachi, Pakistan with his family in 1950,[2] three years after the Partition of India which created Pakistan as a homeland for British Indian Muslims. He graduated from Islamia College, Karachi and worked as a relatively unknown journalist for 15 years. Then, he moved to London and worked for the BBC from 1972 to 2008.[2]
"Raza Ali Abidi is a writer of consequence because of his travels. He owes almost all his writings to his travels but he doesn't travel at random."[3] In November 2013, he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by The Islamia University of Bahawalpur in recognition of his services to the field of broadcasting, journalism and arts.[4]
