The provenance of Urdu literature produced in Pakistan in the last 75 years lies in the poetics of modern-national literature which began in response to colonial conditions of the late 19th Century ...
Indian partition left many indelible political, social, economic and emotional impacts on both states. Urdu literature took a new direction after partition with short stories or afsanay of ...
By winning the 2022 International Booker Prize, Tomb of Sand has made history by becoming the first Hindi novel to win the prize. The book has been written by Geetanjali Shree and was translated by ...
Partition literature as a distinct literary genre has found its place in the Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and English writings of the sub-continent. It is rooted in time but not bound by time. It emerged in ...
Their apartment was located on the ground floor of a three-storied building whose yellowish paint looked as if it was peeling off on its own. My friend's father's two-bedroom government quarter housed ...
Before it was an edict, and a death sentence, it was a rumor. To many, it must have seemed improbable; I imagine my grandmother, buying her vegetables at the market, settling her baby on her hip, ...
On the eve of Partition, August 13, 2022, The ULAB Literary Salon organised by the Department of English and Humanities engaged in a lively, immensely informative discussion on the history and legacy ...
KOCHI: My first exposure to the horrors of partition was through the period film ‘Tamas’ (meaning Darkness) written and directed by Govind Nihalani, which I saw on TV in 1988. It is based on the ...
Mohan’s son Samir inherits his uncle Vivek’s strong sense of smell and the art of perfumery. Words inked on paper and memories etched in minds still bring the horrors and pains of the 1947 partition ...
Perhaps the earliest fictional treatment of Partition by a Bangladeshi writer was the short story ‘The Escape’ written in English by Syed Waliullah (1922-1971) and included in the Pakistan PEN ...
"The Bleeding Border - Stories of Bengal Partition" (Niyogi Books) is an anthology of 24 partition stories written by both prominent and lesser-known authors from West Bengal and Bangladesh. The ...
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...
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