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Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Monday, December 07, 2020

Urdu short story on Internet: How afsana, mini stories reach audience in the era of social media

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  On one hand, there is a fear that social media is affecting the print. But on the other hand, it also provides opportunity to take your wr...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Hindi shouldn't become India's national language, says eminent Hindi author in literary festival in Raipur

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When renowned Hindi poet and author Ashok Vajpeyi, said that Hindi isn't India's national language and should not be one, the news...
Monday, February 10, 2014

UPSC misuses autonomy, UPA remains apathetic: Movement needed to restore Arabic, Persian, Pali in Civil Services

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Indscribe The decision of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to remove Arabic, Persian and Pali from the list of optional subjects ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Bihari to Bangladeshi and Beyond: Abdus Samad's novel on partition of India and the after-effects on people in East Pakistan

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Abdus Samad's Do Gaz Zameen It was almost 15 years ago that I first read Abdus Samad's famous novel,'Do Gaz Zameen', th...
Monday, January 07, 2008

Alwida Shafiqa Aapa: Urdu world bids adieu to the leading woman satirist

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Eminent writer and one of the most well-known Urdu satirists, Shafiqa Farhat, passed away on Sunday. The 76-year-old author had a long lite...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Qurratul Ain Hyder: Legendary author, one of the finest writers of South Asia, is no more

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi One of the greatest litterateurs of the 20th century, Qurratulain Hyder, who is best known for her novel Aag ka Darya...
Sunday, June 17, 2007

Storm in Hindi blogosphere & Shah Alam camp stories (Gujarat riot victims)

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Renowned Hindi author Asghar Wajahat's book 'Main Hindu huuN' is a collection of stories that mainly address communalism and oth...
Sunday, December 24, 2006

Shaukat Siddiqui's 'Khuda Ki Basti': An epic Urdu novel that depicts human suffering and the spirit to survive against all odds

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It was a strange feeling. I had just started reading one of the greatest Urdu novels ever written, 'Khuda ki Basti'  and finished...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

Major literary works focusing on Indian Muslims: Books dealing with Muslim issues, India's partition and Indo-Islamic culture of the sub-continent

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Strong novel against Hindu, Muslim communalism A gentleman, Rao Sahab, has asked me about literary works of Indian Muslims that can gi...