Toward the end of the late Indian writer Ismat Chughtai’s short story “Mutti Maalish,” Ratti Bai, a hospital maid, describes to an upper-class patient two methods of abortion used by poor women in ...
URDU short story is now over 100 years old, though the reply to the question ‘When did it exactly begin?’ may be a bit disputed. Urdu’s three different short story writers are mentioned as ‘the real ...
If someone thinks Urdu short stories are a thing of the past when writers such as Manto, Bedi, Krishan Chandar and Ismat Chughtai ruled supreme, they are mistaken. “Just in the past one year, 102 ...
The session on Urdu short stories was undoubtedly one of the finest the Karachi Literature Festival had to offer, for two reasons. The well-moderated discussion actually revolved around literary ...
TWO books published recently have some similarities, but they are different, too. Both of them are, in fact, PhD dissertations; both are on Pakistani Urdu short story and both have been written by ...
A recently published book of translated short stories not only presents established international authors in a fresh light but also introduces Urdu readers to new writers and regions The ...
New Delhi: A collection of Urdu short stories which was banned in 1933 after it created a firestorm of public outrage for its bold attack on conservative Islam and British colonialism is now available ...
Urdu has come to be associated with the florid idioms of ‘ghazal’ and ‘shayari’. (iStockphoto) In early 2019, in the comparatively benign days before Twitter assumed its current avatar X, a viral ...
The audience cheered and clapped entreating the poets for an encore. At the 56th edition of Bazm-e-Mushaira in the national capital last month, the energy and the evocation of emotions did well to ...
In his English rendering of select Urdu ghazals, short-stories and other genres, Ralph Russell opens up an appreciation of Urdu literature to a wide range of readers. When I was in primary school, ...
“What lies beyond the fog?” is a question that the characters in Qurattulain Haider’s short story in Muhammad Umar Memon’s lovingly selected volume of Urdu stories ask more than once. The answer to ...
Just 12 days after its launch, Pratap, an Urdu-language newspaper that had started to protest against British oppression, was ...
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