Education
Farooqui completed his schooling from The Doon School and went on to read History at Saint Stephen"s College, Delhi. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to read History at Saint Peter"s College, University of Oxford.
Farooqui completed his schooling from The Doon School and went on to read History at Saint Stephen"s College, Delhi. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to read History at Saint Peter"s College, University of Oxford.
He specializes in a type of story-telling known as Dastangoi. In Besieged: voices from Delhi 1857 Farooqui published a series of his translations of texts representing the views of those besieged in Delhi in 1857. He was a researcher for White Mughals, a book by William Dalrymple.