Archive for August, 2007
Remembering Qurratulain Hyder (1927-2007)
For several centuries Urdu was a language of poetry. We had great poets like Meer, Ghalib and Iqbal, but we had no major work of prose to be kept alongside the novels of West. Ainee changed this forever and Urdu world will always be indebted to her for penning ‘Aag ka Darya’.
Her name meant ‘the [...]
Legendary Urdu scholar Gian Chand Jain dies
Legendary Urdu litterateur Gian Chand Jain died at Porterville (California) in America on Saturday night. He was 85.
An authority on Ghalib and a linguist par excellence, Jain was born in Seohara town in Bijnore district in 1923. He had written his first ghazal under the pen name ‘Ghaafil’ in 1937.
Jain’s latest book ‘Ek Bhasha, [...]
Sadaa-e-Urdu: A literary journal from Bhopal
At the turn of millennium when Urdu publications were gasping for breath in Central India, a literary journal Sadaa-e-Urdu began its publication.
Eminent Urdu litterateur Naeem Kausar needs to be congratulated for the success of his magazine. The fortnightly has successfully completed six years and carved a niche for itself amongst Urdu magazines.
I have [...]
