WHICH is the first novel ever written in Urdu? Which are the best and/or important Urdu novels written during the last one-and-a-half century? By the way, the best and important may not always be ...

A few years ago he wrote a piece in a newspaper on new arrivals and, citing many new Urdu novels, concluded that Urdu novel was staging a revival. Though I was already convinced, publication of a ...

The languages represented through translation are Urdu (two novels), Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, and, for the first time, Nepali. Translator Jayasree Kalathil, who won the prize in 2020 with S ...

LUCKNOW: The ‘Yaad-e-Kalbe Mustafa Naqvi’ seminar-cum-exhibition, showcasing rare Urdu manuscripts and novels of the late jurist and Urdu scholar Syed Kalbe Mustafa, took place at Vishal Khand ...