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Hindi is written from left to right in the Devanagari script, and is the official language of India, along with English. Urdu, on the other hand, is written from right to left in the Nastaliq script (a modified form of the Arabic script) and is the national language of Pakistan.
The stories collected in this volume represent a distinctive contribution to the modern Urdu short story. Focused primarily on the lives of Urdu-speaking Muslim families in Pakistan and pre-Partition India, the stories explore the nature of compromise and moral death, and the emotional and sexual lives of women with a remarkable command of ...
- Shamoon Zamir
Writers like Ghulam Abbas, Manto, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Krishan Chander and Ismat Chughtai, to name but a few, turned the short story into a major genre of Urdu literature. The next generation of Urdu short story writers included Qurratulain Hyder, Qazi Abdul Sattar and Joginder Paul.
To look at a familiar Urdu short story in an exciting new English version is to see it (at least momentarily) in all its freshness, to perceive its distinctiveness and achievement with greater clarity, and to experience its memorable effects again from unexpected angles.
preserved the works of previous generations, this is where we bring together the best of contemporary Urdu fiction. Over here, you can read across a wide range of extremely famous short stories by new writers whose names are only becoming more and more promising by the day.
Chughtai was, and much of her fiction would be made available to anglophone readers in the nineties. (Several other writers in Urdu are world class—that awful term—but the short story is Urdu’s distinctive genre).
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The earliest linguistic influences in the development of Urdu probably began with the Muslim conquest of Sindh in 711. The language started evolving from Farsi and Arabic contacts during the invasions of the Indian subcontinent by Persian and Turkic forces from the 11th century onward.
