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 ...

An extract from the story Voices, in The Harper Collins Book of Urdu Short Stories, edited by Muhammad Umar Memon (Harper Collins, 2005) HT Image 'I want to keep dogs.' 'What for?' the woman's ...

The session on Urdu short stories was undoubtedly one of the finest the Karachi Literature Festival had to offer, for two reasons. The well-moderated discussion actually revolved around literary ...

An excerpt from ‘Arrival’ by Mahmoud Yasien, translated by Afif Shams Siddiqi, from ‘Contemporary Urdu Short Stories from Kolkata’.

On Monday, I learnt from a Facebook post by Rakshanda Jalil, the prominent Urdu literary critic, that Naiyer Masud (born 1936), one of the greatest Urdu short story writers, had died a few hours ...

If someone thinks Urdu short stories are a thing of the past when writers such as Manto, Bedi, Krishan Chandar and Ismat Chughtai ruled supreme, they are mistaken. “Just in the past one year ...

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 ...