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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

A great many number of books published during the last five years or so, analysing Urdu short story from a critical and research point of view, was yet another testimony that the interest in short ...

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 ...

The women characters of Ismat Chughtai are different as compared to female characters depicted in earlier Urdu short stories. Chauthi Ka Joda (The Wedding Suit) is about a poor widow Bi Amma who ...

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 ...