Edited and Translated by Professor Nishat Zaidi, Karbala (Oxford University Press, 2022) reveals Premchand’s profound understanding of the communal conflict in early twentieth-century India and his unique way of imagining the nation, in tune with Gandhian principles of communal harmony and co-existence of religions. In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussain, sacrificed his life and his family […]
Premchand began writing Karbala in July 1923 and finished it in January 1924. The play was first published in Hindi by Ganga Pustak Mala in November 1924. Two years later, it was serialised in Zamana from July 1926 to April 1928, but with some alterations. The play was translated into Urdu partly by Premchand himself and partly by Premchand’s […]
Barnita Bagchi Reviewed publication:Mushirul Hasan & Nishat Zaidi (trans. & eds.) 2011. A Voyage to Modernism: Syed Ahmed Khan, New Delhi: Primus Books, ISBN:9789380607078 (hb) Syed Ahmed Khan travelled from Benares in India to London in England in 1869, spent seventeen months in England, and returned to India in 1871. He wrote an Urdu travelogue, in […]
FEHMIDA ZAKEER India-born Pakistani Urdu author Intizar Husain was one of the most celebrated writers of Pakistan. His novellas, Din Aur Dastan , exploring memories of war, love and loss that the two countries hold in common, have been translated into English nearly six decades after they first appeared in Urdu. Although both novellas revolve around the […]
