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 ...

"The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told", compiled and translated by Muhammad Umar Memon, features 25 of the finest Urdu short stories. NEW DELHI: It is good news for Urdu literature aficionados ...

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 ...

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 ...

292pp, ₹415; Niyogi Books That’s why the new anthology, Contemporary Urdu Short Stories from Kolkata, edited by Shams Afif Siddiqi and Fuzail Asar Siddiqi and translated by the former ...

Ahmed Ali shot to fame in 1932 with the publication of `Angare` (or embers), a fiery collection of Urdu short stories that, true to its name, ignited a fire of anger throughout the conservative ...

Sin, which includes this essay, is a collection of some of Tabassum’s boldest Urdu short stories, translated into English for the first time by Pakistani journalist Reema Abbasi. The stories ...

It is this concern with the strangeness of the real that Masud gave words to in his short stories. In this respect he was an anomaly, not just in the realm of Urdu literature but also in the ...

The acclaimed novel, now beautifully rendered in Urdu as Viran Nazar by the renowned ... musical lyrics, and short stories. His debut novel, Nenhum Olhar (Blank Gaze), won the prestigious José ...

In 2011, while participating in the Faiz Ahmed Faiz festival in Lahore, theatre personality Danish Husain was gifted a book of Urdu short stories written by Ali Akbar Natiq. After reading ...