“Being published by the Oxford University Press is rather like being married to a duchess: the honour is almost greater than the pleasure”, said G.M. Young (1882-1959), the famous English historian. Mr Young forgot to mention the royalty though being published by Oxford should also mean getting paid nicely, I am sure.
But it must sound somewhat familiar to the writers of Urdu: there is little honour and even lesser pleasure, if at all, in being published in Urdu — and one hardly gets
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