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Encounters with Europe

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 […]

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‘Day and Dastan’ review: all the stories left behind

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 […]

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