Stories written by

Rahman Abbas

Fiction: The psychological dilemmas of a liberal man living in an orthodox Muslim society

An excerpt from ‘On the Other Side’, by Rahman Abbas, translated from the Urdu by Riyaz Latif.

Rahman Abbas
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Riyaz Latif
· Jul 08, 2024 · 05:30 pm
‘Rohzin’: This novel of interrelated lives explores love, lovers, longing and the city of Mumbai

An excerpt from ‘Rohzin’, Rahman Abbas, translated from the Urdu by Sabika Abbas Naqvi.

Rahman Abbas
· Apr 19, 2022 · 05:30 pm
‘Eid in the Days of Plague’: This short story is born of the imagination in a time of grim reality

‘Thousands of people succumbed to this epidemic of hate.’

Rahman Abbas
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Translated by Maaz Bin Bilal
· May 14, 2021 · 08:30 am

Already caught in a squeeze, where does Urdu publishing go from here after the pandemic?

The business model of Urdu publishers has to change from author sponsorship to reader revenues.

Rahman Abbas
· Aug 18, 2020 · 08:30 am