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 ...

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 ...

I’d said to myself: Why don’t I do my own Bhartiya-karan, that is, Indianise myself, before someone else thinks of doing it? The first problem was my name. Perhaps you don’t know: my name is Iqbal ...

Editor and translator Rakhshanda Jalil's new anthology begins with a story by one of the four pillars of the modern Urdu short story: Krishan Chander (right). (Images courtesy Rakhshanda Jalil and via ...

This book provides a representative selection from the short stories of the popular Urdu short story writer Syed Rafiq Hussain. His literary career was as remarkable as it was brief. Hussain wrote ...

KARACHI: Urdu writers and critics expressed their regret at the decline of short story writing and publishing trends in Urdu literature on the last day of the 6th International Urdu Conference on ...

A few weeks ago, in a class on Urdu poetry in translation, I was asked a disconcerting question about the status of Urdu as a language. In light of the frequent controversies generated around the ...

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 ...

The provenance of Urdu literature produced in Pakistan in the last 75 years lies in the poetics of modern-national literature which began in response to colonial conditions of the late 19th Century ...

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 ...