فرحت احساس عصر حاضر کے معروف شاعر ،صحافی اور مترجم ہے۔ ان کا شعری مجموعہ "شاعری نہیں ہے یہ" زیر مطالعہ ہے۔ جو ان کے جدید لب ولہجہ کی عمدہ مثال ہے۔ ان کی غزلوں میں ایک طرح کا طلسمی رچاو ہے، جو قاری کو مسحور کردیتا ہے۔ سنجیدگی ،متانت اور زبان کی شستگی ان کے کلام کی اہم خصوصیات ہیں۔ انھوں نے عصر حاضر کے مختلف مسائل پر خوب لکھا ہے۔ اس مجموعہ میں فرحت احساس کی جدید موضوعات پر جدید پیرائیہ کی نظمیں بھی شامل ہیں۔

Farhat Ehsas is one of the utmost contemporary post-modern Urdu shayars in India. Though a specialist in traditional Persian and Urdu poetic tradition, over a period of time he has mastered a poetic idiom which while drawing freely from the classical aesthetics is able to express the pangs, sorrows and miseries and also blisses of the common man living amidst the devastations created by the governmental excesses, financial corruption and societal anarchy, and ethical and psychic void. He has been an editor for the literary magazine of the most prestigious Urdu daily in north India, the Qaumi Aawaz, New Delhi, for quite a few years. Moreover, for over 15 years he has been contributing commentaries on current affairs to All India Radio and also the Urdu Service of BBC. He has been associated with two internationally reputed research journals in English and Urdu published by the Zakir Hussain Institute of Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. At present, he is associated with Rekhta.org, the website for Urdu sher-o-shayari and Literature. He has also earned reputation as a script writer for several documentaries and TV serials. He was a script-writer for Bazm-e-Sukhan, a poetry based programme and fiction series Ek Nazar Kee Tamanna for the UTN, Zee TV. He has also written dialogues for a feature film Wanted No 1 in addition to writing scripts of several serials for All India Radio.