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Roshnai (the title of the Urdu work of which The Light is a Translation) is considered to be the most authentic record of the Progressive Movement, which transformed Urdu literature, and also had an impact on the literatures of many other languages of the subcontinent. It contains fascinating vignettes of famour personalities of the time, mainly writers, such as Rabindranath Tagore, Munshi Premchand, Hasrat Mohani and Faiz Ahmed Faiz. It gives an unforgettable ...
These memoirs describe the author’s life experiences, insights and interaction with friends and family, and in fact, complement the memoirs of Akhtar Husain Raipuri, the noted Urdu critic and short story writer. Hameeda Raipuri also provides luminous vignettes of other prominent people such as her father Zafar Omar, a popular Urdu novelist of his day, Sarojini Naidu, M.K. Gandhi, and Maulvi Abdul Haq. Her description of the latter, capturing his unguarded ...