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 ...

SOME critics draw parallels between Urdu ghazal and Urdu short story. Ghazal, the most popular genre of Urdu poetry, is known for its brevity, compactness and crispness.

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, is a pioneering work.It compiles 19 ...

Toward the end of the late Indian writer Ismat Chughtai’s short story “Mutti Maalish,” Ratti Bai, a hospital maid, describes to an upper-class patient two methods of abortion used by poor ...

The opening story of Zakiya Mashhadi’s latest publication Diya Baati ki Bela, a collection of short Urdu stories, is a must-read to comprehend and diagnose the current problems of Hindu-Muslim ...

Ejaz Rahi edited an anthology of fourteen Urdu short stories titled Gawahi (Testimony) a few months after the imposition of martial law. The book was banned, and the editor lost his job.

Her first short-story collection, Apni Nagariya, was published in 1947 with a preface by Muhammad Hasan Askari. Shirin excelled both in creative writing and criticism, as evidenced by works like ...

Besides writing short stories, Mumtaz Shirin also brought out Urdu journal ‘Naya Daur’ with husband Samad Shaheen, which became a standard for journals at the time. Her literary criticism as a ...

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, is a ...