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 women in ...

Well-known novelist Zahida Hina has said that world events at the beginning of the 21st century influenced Urdu fiction. Like the progressive movement, in the last twenty-two years too, very good and ...

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 ‘the real ...

A scholar, short-story writer, novelist, critic and translator, Prof Ahmed Ali is one of those few writers who have written both in Urdu and English. He continued writing in both languages till he ...

Renowned Urdu story writer Mazharul Islam's latest work of fiction is a fantasy novel titled "Zindagi Nay Mur Kar Shaitan Ke Qatil Ko Dekha Aur Muskurai". It has been described as a combination of ...

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 ...

God knows what got into her head. She abruptly broke her stride and slipped into Shandar Cloth Store. Then she opened the door of the show window and, deftly, removing the lovely mannequin, stood ...

Sudha Pai in 2002 stated, “If a language is not characterised by political neutrality, it too often becomes the tool by which this language group seeks to extend its domination over the minority ...

The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and Roznama Rashtriya Sahara to lesser-known weeklies, many publications that ...

Urdu poet Bashir Badr died at his Bhopal home at 91 after years away from public life. His verses, quoted in films, Parliament and everyday speech, leave a lasting literary legacy.