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This book addresses the mutual relationship between literature and film in the Indian context involving three iconic figures of Indian cultural life: Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand, and Satyajit Ray. Drawing upon the insights of leading academics and emerging scholars in the field, this volume presents an exclusive and highly specialized study of this complex process of mediation from printed words to images on the screen involving two legendary writers and a ...
A Life in Words, the first complete translation of her celebrated memoir Kaghazi hai Pairahan, provides an authentic and delightful account of several crucial years of Ismat’s life. Presented along with the vivid and high-energy descriptions of her childhood years are the conflicted experiences of growing up in a large Muslim family during the early decades of the twentieth century. We get an intimate view of a writer’s fierce struggle to find her own ...
This comprehensive anthology of short stories explores Muslim lives and inter-community relationships in the Indian subcontinent. By sensitizing redears to the multicultural reality of Muslime society it effectively dismantles the notion of a homogenized and inalienable Muslim identity and experience, a notion that does not take into account the complex and lived realities of India's more that 1000 million Muslims. Selected from at least twelve Indian languages, ...
Though barely a hundred years old, the Urdu short story, or 'afsana', has established itself at the forefront of Urdu literature. Emerging as a discrete narrative genre with Munshi Premchand, it gained momentum with the progressive writers' movement in the 1930s. The partition of the subcontinent in 1947 introduced new dynamics into the genre as writers grappled with emerging trends of modernism and symbolism as well as with a depleted readership in India and the ...