Sunday, 4 August 2013

Column: Requiem for vanished hopes: Intizar Husain's early fiction translator and editor of The Annual of Urdu Studies.

Muhammad Umar Memon is a writer, translator and editor of The Annual of Urdu Studies. He was Professor of Urdu Literature and Islamic Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and is an Emeritus Professor now.

The present, 34 years too late but rather euphoric hullabaloo over Intizar Husain's Basti is perhaps the appropriate time to talk about some of his earlier work. Basti doesn't exist in a vacuum. In fact, it is a summation, an ingathering of many strands that precede it in the

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