His village is situated on the bank of the river Ganges and is a picturesque spot, naturally he was attaracted towards its natural beauty and tranquility .He spent leisure time in watching the beauty of nature around the village he himself has written on one occasion that the natural surroundings of his village were one of the major factors which motivated him towards poetry and literature.but more factually he was a born beauty lover & poet. Saghar Nizami has written on one occasion that Azam's way of talking, style of walking, his physique and his gestures everything is shayrana[poetic].

Azam took his entrance exam in 1914 and who can imagine that he started publishing a literary Urdu magazine from Allahabad named "toofan" in 1918 which published upto 1921under the guidance of famous poet Hazrat Nooh Narwi who was his ustaad in poetry. Again from 1925 to 1926 he was the editor of a standard urdu magazine "akbar" which was published in memory of Syed Akbar Allahabadi by Anjuman Darul Adab formed by Dr. Azam and his friends. This magazine was approved by the British govt. for all the state liabries in the then United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.

In beginning azam was a poet and attended the mushairas also but when tarannum became more important than the ashaar, Azam left attending mushaira and turned towards short story writing (afsana nigaari). Azam spent his childhood in villages and had a great love for villages and was of the opininon that villages should maintain their qualities and peculiarities as villages and should not try to become
a town. Even he has complained in some of his stories that villages are losing their original traits and qualities. At that time Munshi Premchand was also writing on the problems and life of indian villages powerfully and impressingly therfore Azam followed him but he made his own way in this field . His afsana can easily be differentiated with Premchand's as Premchand's afsane were void of love and romance whereas Azam's
stories had a very deep and fine touch of love. Azam Koraivi wrote more than 300 short stories in Urdu and is regarded as a indispensable member of "Premchand school of afsananigaari."

He has in his name more than 13 story collections apart from a lot of unpublished stories. He translated a lot of stories from Gujarati, Bengali and Marathi into Urdu.

Some of his famous story collections are:- 
1.shaikh o birahman aur doosre afsane 1942 
2.inquilab aur doosre afsane 1944 
3.prem ki churiyan aur doosre afsane 1942 
4.dukh sukh 1944 
5.roop singar aur doosre afsane 1944 
6.hindustani afsane 1945 
7.nae fasane 1946 
8.hamare afsane 1945 
9.dil ki batein 1946 
Etc 

He wrote two marvelous books on nazm also:

1. Dehati geet 
In which he has collected and compiled the folk songs and dehati songs which are not found in books, only on the lips of dehatis for hundreds of years such as sawan ke geet. Kolhu ke geet, shadi ke geet, chakki ke geet etc.it was a marvellous work done by him which brought him wide fame and praise from the literary groups. 

2 Hindi shayeri 
He was awarded by the hindustani academy in 1929 on a book named" hindi shayeri" in which he has compared the hindi and urdu verses on some given topics. Azam served the indian army so he travelled far and vide at that time in unified india and pakistan. After partition he preferred to live in karachi, where he was shot dead in june 1955 when he was on his way to home after his daily morning walk.his death was
related with some of his writings against the oppression of the suppressed class and women. 

[by khalid bin umar] 
grandson of azam koraivi 
< khalidkoraivi@yahoo.com >