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Author Archives: Thebookreviewindia

Partition’s Afterlife Imagined Afresh

Volume XXXV No. 4 - APRIL 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

All Passion Spent was launched recently in New Delhi by Zubaan in the author’s presence. The exchange with the author that followed was thought provoking and moving, not least because Zaheda Hina chose to speak in Urdu/ Hindustani in response to questions, after a brief reading from the novel.

Propositioning Ideology

Volume XXXV No. 4 - APRIL 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

The All India Progressive Writers Movement (AIPWM) has been one of most dominant, indigenous, 20th century countrywide movements taking in its sweep most writers of vernacular literature.

On the Eve of Loneliness

Volume XXXV No. 4 - APRIL 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

Zahida Zaidi was a poet, dramatist, translator and critic whose literary contributions belong to the realms of both Urdu and English literatures. She was a prolific writer passionately concerned with the pulse of the times so one comes across varied political, cultural and social themes in her work. She was innovative too in her use of various literary forms. Sham-e-Tanhai was Zahida.

Economics of Poverty

Volume V No. 1 - JULY/AUGUST 1980By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

These two books have titles that sound deceptively similar. While their common theme is indeed the problem of poverty in developing countries, no two books can be more radically different in the basic approach in defining the nature of the problem and the possible directions in which policy-makers in these countries can seek a solution.

Letters from a Prison Cell

Volume XXXV No. 4 - APRIL 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

I run my hand over this large volume with a pictorial cover of a brown prison wall, pierced diagonally with barbed wire, a patch of a sky, a few forlorn trees standing behind parallel search lights and a sentry standing erect before a guard room.

Faiz: Life and Letters

Volume XXXV No. 4 - APRIL 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

The five almost undisputed leaders of modern Urdu poetry, chronologically by year of their of birth, are N.M. Rashid (1910-1975), Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984), Meeraji (1912-1949), Majeed Amjad (1914-1974) and Akhtarul Iman (1915-1996).

Best of Faiz

Volume XXXV No. 4 - APRIL 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

Khalid Hasan, the one-time compatriot and Press Secretary to Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and journalist par excellence is well known for his literary writings. For years the life and times of Madame Noor Jehan have been celebrated in his writings.

Neither Up Nor Down

Volume V No. 1 - JULY/AUGUST 1980By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

This is the third book of the trilogy that Bose has been working on, wherein he has painstakingly and with meticul­ous precision worked out detailed proofs and consistency exercises on Marx’s Fundamental Theorem of Exploitation.

Surviving the Test of Time

Volume XXXV No. 4 - APRIL 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

Rajinder Singh Bedi (19151984) began his working life as a postal clerk but soon carved a place for himself in the canon of modern Urdu short stories with his very first collection, DanaoDam, published in 1940.

Contradictions Between Politics and Gender

Volume XXXV No. 4 - APRIL 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

Literature is not only a mirror but also a major source of inspiration. With the formation of the Progressive Writers Movement in India in 1936 a radical shift emerged in the consciousness of Urdu writers. This book examines the role of progressive writing in the history of India.

‘Bol ki Lab Aazaad Hain Tere’

Volume XXXV No. 4 - APRIL 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

There is one kind of lament about Indian politics that has become commonplace: politics has become characterized only by corruption, selfindulgence, and venality.

Progressive Literature and Nation-building

Volume XXXV No. 4 - APRIL 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

This like all books on the Progressive Writers Movement is to be heartily welcomed as an attempt to redress a very serious historical neglect. To subtitle it an episode is however to acknowledge and reinforce the overarching and unquestioned authority of the national question over all other approaches and framings of this period.

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