Sunday, 15 September 2013
INTERVIEW: The Mirror of Beauty (novel) By Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Penguin Books, India ISBN 9780670086757
he Urdu world is notoriously starved for novels but, in 2005, it was dazzled by the appearance of Kai Chand the Sar-i Asman, a wide-ranging historical narrative written in a bejewelled style. Immersed in the culture and language of Delhi in the last days of the Mughal era, the novel was later successfully rendered into Hindi and recently, into English. As the novel gains a new readership, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi responds from his home in Allahabad to questions about the novel, his models and
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