Ashar Najmi had been very close to Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. Faruqi had played a pivotal role in success of Najmi's Esbaat, an Urdu literary quarterly launched from Mumbai in 2008. Faruqi not only guided but also morally supported Najmi in this venture, which seemed like a bad decision at the outset as Urdu literary magazines were already losing market and interest of the readers fast, both in India and Pakistan. But Najmi successfully carved out a place for himself and his magazine in literary world. Najmi has sentimentally described how his love of reading led him to Faruqi's works and how he fell deeply in with Faruqi. Najmi's 150 page impressions titled Ye Lauh-i-Mazar To Meri Hai (This Tombstone is mine), the readers come to comprehend India's literary scene, literary groups and their rivalries during the last few decades or so, especially the literary feuds between Gopi Chand Narang and Shmasur Rahman Faruqi.