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 ...

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 ...

SHORT story is Urdu’s most popular prose genre. Its counterpart in Urdu poetry, ghazal, has faced many challenges and adversaries and, of late, ghazal’s reign is threatened by a steep rise of modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

If asked to name Urdu fiction writers, most English readers would list historical icons such as Manto and Chughtai — contemporary writers in the language do not have that kind of widespread ...

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 ...

IN ART and literature, realism means depicting things as they are, but a fiction writer is not a historian or sociologist and, therefore, realism does not mean that a writer has to write the “detailed ...

These lines come at the climax of Sawari (Ride), the representative short story of Khalida Hussain, the Pakistani Urdu writer and novelist who passed away on January 11 in Islamabad at the age of 81.

On Monday, I learnt from a Facebook post by Rakshanda Jalil, the prominent Urdu literary critic, that Naiyer Masud (born 1936), one of the greatest Urdu short story writers, had died a few hours ...