Before Salman Rushdie’s 'The Satanic Verses', a 1932 Urdu anthology 'Angarey' had instigated similar angst in India, making the uproar over later banned books pale in comparison considering this was an age innocent of social media.
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A lost master of Urdu poetry comes to light, and detracts from Zafar
BY Rakshanda Jalil 5 February 2022
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From the prodigiously bountiful store of Urdu stories comes a collection full of—for the English reader—unread gems and undiscovered authors
BY Rakshanda Jalil 7 April 2018
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The great Qurratulain Hyder could be wonderfully gossipy yet notoriously tetchy. Jameel Akhtar brings out the real person, her world and her creations.
BY Rakshanda Jalil 24 June 2017
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The fascinating world of Akhtar’s fiction opens to the English-reading world with this book
BY Rakshanda Jalil 28 January 2017
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Naqvi’s book has value in advance warning, not in its bilious narrative
BY Rakshanda Jalil 2 September 2016
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She would have lived a rich and meaningful life had she not married Faiz. But being Faiz’s wife brought an extra dimension.
BY Rakshanda Jalil 25 June 2016
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Pulls you in with all the insistence of a dream despite its blurred outlines and disregard for time and space
BY Rakshanda Jalil 15 April 2016
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