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Showing posts with label Urdu books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urdu books. Show all posts
Friday, January 29, 2021

Bonding with Bookshop owners and buying old, rare novels in different cities in India

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi When you keep visiting bookshops often, you form a bond with the shop owners. Just like other shops, the bookshop owne...
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...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Danish Mahal: An Urdu bookshop in Lucknow

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Cities change with time and citizens often rue the transformation. The reason is that most of us are nostalgic about our past [childhood]...
Friday, August 07, 2009

At last, Advani gets an Urdu publisher for his autobiography

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At last, LK Advani's autobiography has been published in Urdu. He wanted to appear in print much before the elections. But Advani could...
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...