Urdu short story: ‘What kind of nationalism is it to live in India and have an Arabic name?’

An excerpt from a story by Kanhaiyalal Kapoor in ‘Whose Urdu Is It Anyway?: Stories by Non-Muslim Urdu Writers’, edited and translated by Rakhshanda Jalil.

Kanhaiyalal Kapoor

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Rakhshanda Jalil

· Jul 23, 2025 · 05:30 pm