Urdu literature
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How the English department of Aligarh Muslim University nurtured contemporary Urdu literature
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors
Prerna Vij
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How the pandemic is depriving lovers of Urdu literature of their environment for enjoyment
Mahtab Alam
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Goodbye Asif Farrukhi (1959-2020): Writer, translator, editor, and lover of fine literature
Saif Mahmood
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Mirza Athar Baig’s ‘Hassan’s State of Affairs’ underlines the art and challenges of translation
Irfan Aslam, Dawn.com
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This novel is a dark comedy in the terrifying times of Zia-ul-Haq's rule in Pakistan
Intizar Husain
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Qurratulain Hyder was modern and experimental before most other Indian writers walked on that road
Fatima Rizvi, Sahapedia
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‘Cosmopolitan Dreams’: A vital book charts Urdu’s journey from newsprint to novel
Asif Farrukhi
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Can men write convincingly about women in fiction? This collection of Urdu stories shows how
Ipshita Nath
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The adventures of a Lucknowi flaneur should be required reading in Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh
Malini Nair
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‘What lies beyond the fog?’ A variety never seen before in a collection of Urdu stories
Maaz Bin Bilal
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This is the book that lovers of Urdu literature needed, to understand its history
Rana Safvi
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‘The Pose’: Anwer Khan’s short story is one of the 25 greatest in Urdu, says an anthologist
Anwer Khan
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Born on India’s future Independence Day, Ismat Chughtai wrote of the world she saw, not aspired to
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Naiyer Masud (1936-2017): The great Urdu short story writer who cultivated artistic obscurity
Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi
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Away from clichéd pop imagination, Urdu is reclaiming its space (sometimes via other languages)
Rakhshanda Jalil
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Urdu poet Bekal Utsahi embodied the true (and endangered) Ganga-Jamni culture of India
Harish Trivedi
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A Delhi artist is trying to popularise Urdu by putting Faiz and Chughtai on T-shirts
Shweta D'Souza