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Ayesha Jamal is on a train to Bombay, on a mission to resolve an unpleasant complication in her husband’s professional life that threatens to destroy everything. Uncertain, on edge, she responds to the passing world around her, to the realities of present-day India and her domestic life, with a mixture of helpless anger and desperate hope. In the compartment with her are a quintessential politician, self-important and solicitous; a no-nonsense girl, sharp and ...
One of India's finest prose stylists, Shama Futehally (1952–2004) was also among the country's most accomplished writers of short fiction in English. This posthumous collection brings together all her short stories, written over two decades. The first and title story—also the last that she wrote—is a fictionalized account of the Uphaar Cinema tragedy in Delhi and was originally intended as a novella. Yet, even in its present form we see the exceptional ...
For nearly three centuries the Urdu ghazal has been beloved of connoisseur and layman alike. Its hypnotic rhythmic qualities, its exquisite interweaving of human and divine love, its joy in the good things of life as well as its mystic austerity, and, finally, its irresistible wit, have made it equally popular whether recited at formal gatherings, or spontaneously quoted, or only read. This translation attempts to capture the best qualities of the ghazal in a ...