"Aik Baap Bikau hai" is a story of a lonely father. After the death of his wife and discarded by his 3 children he places an advertisement in the local news paper where he puts himself up for sale. Even with all his quirks and bad habits he is finally bought by a millionaire. Rejoinder singh bedi masterfully weaves this tale of family, loss and want of companionship.
Rabindranath Tagore born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), also known by his pen name Bhanu Singha Thakur (Bhonita), and also known by his sobriquets Gurudev, Kabiguru, and Biswakabi, was a polymath, poet, musician, artist and ayurveda-researcher from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Tetwal Ka Kutta - ٹیٹوال کا کتا is a story of an unfortunate dog caught between India and Pakistan war. When Indian forces find a stray dog they claim him as an indian dog but when Pakistani forces find out that their dog has been to the enemy camp they tie a message around his neck and send him back to the Indian side. Indian forces feel betrayed when they see their dog coming from the enemy side and they open fire at the dog. As a response Pakistani forces fire at the dog too. Caught between the two forces the dog is eventually shot dead.
Quarantine is a story about a doctor and a sanitary worker, Bhago. And how after being inspired by Bhago's selflessness and devotion to save mankind the doctor ends up successfully fighting the quarantine.Rajinder Singh Bedi (1 September 1915 – 1984) is considered one of the great fiction writers of the subcontinent. He was an Indian urdu writer of the progressive writers movement and a playwright, who later worked in Hindi cinema as a film director, screenwriter and dialogue writer.
In the story, Yazid, urdu يزيد, Manto explores the concept of an enemy. Based on the aftermaths of India Pakistan Partition of 1947, the story discusses how people reacts when they first find out that India is closing all the rivers that provide water to Pakistan. The protagonist of the story karim Daad, is a humble but an intelligent man who questions his fellow villagers behaviors towards India after receiving the news that soon India wants to destroy Pakistan by closing its water supplies.
Khuda Ki Kasam is a short story by Saadat Hassan Manto. Here, Manto beautifully narrates the tragic story of an old woman in search of her daughter, who got lost in the riots of 1947, India Pakistan partition. The old woman is adamant that her daughter is still alive because she is so beautiful that no one can harm her.
This is part four and final episode of the novel Raat Ka Shahzada. This novel is part of a famous murder mystery series known as Imran Series written by Ibn-e-Safi (Urdu: ابنِ صفی). Ibn-E-Safi was the pen name of Asrar Ahmed a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. This episode will finally reveal how our protagonist Imran discovers the true identity of the man with the owl symbol. If there are any suggestions please feel free to email me on haideralijan@gmail.com
This is part three of the novel Raat Ka Shahzada. This novel is part of a famous murder mystery series known as Imran Series written by Ibn-e-Safi (Urdu: ابنِ صفی). Ibn-E-Safi was the pen name of Asrar Ahmed a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. In these novels Ali Imran is the pivotal character, a comical secret agent who controls the Secret Service as X-2 but appears to work as a normal member of the Secret Service.
This is part two of the novel Raat Ka Shahzada. This novel is part of a famous murder mystery series known as Imran Series written by Ibn-e-Safi (Urdu: ابنِ صفی). Ibn-E-Safi was the pen name of Asrar Ahmed a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. In these novels Ali Imran is the pivotal character, a comical secret agent who controls the Secret Service as X-2 but appears to work as a normal member of the Secret Service.
Ibn-e-Safi (also spelled as Ibne Safi) (Urdu: ابنِ صفی) was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. His main works were the 125-book series Jasoosi Dunya (The Spy World) and the 120-book Imran Series, with a small canon of satirical works and poetry. His novels were characterised by a blend of mystery, adventure, suspense, violence, romance and comedy, achieving massive popularity across a broad readership in South Asia. Imran Series is undoubtedly the most famous spy novel created by Pakistani writer Ibn-e-Safi.Ali Imran is the pivotal character, a comical secret agent who controls the Secret Service as X-2 but appears to work as a normal member of the Secret Service.
Pesha by Ismat Chughtai investigates the authors encounters with prostitutes. She attempts to understand their profession and how over time her understanding of them changes. Ismat Chughtai is arguably one of the most prominent, urdu language, woman writers of her time. Mainly a short story writer, she also wrote films and novels too.
Intizar Hussain is considered one of the most prominent urdu fiction writer, known for his stories woven around the experience of Partition and for his individual style of telling tales. He is also the first Urdu writer to have been shortlisted for Man Booker prize.The story Khymay Say Dur is filled with references/hints to Karbala and Imam Hussain. The story is about 5 unnamed characters hiding in a dark space planning their escape/leave.
The story analyses unmarried men's obsession with collecting empty bottles and empty cans.
The story is about a regular guy struggling to make sense of life around him. He tries everything to be like everyone else so that he may find peace but all that is too much for him. In the end it is all too much for him and he finally looses his mind. And from then onwards he roams the streets naked still trying to cope with the world.
Rubber Ki Aurat is a story of a man trying to find the perfect life partner. Written by Krishna Chander and narrated by Haider Ali Jan.
In this first episode I narrate a short story by Saadat Hassan Manto, titled "Bismillah". Manto is arguably the best urdu short writer of all times. Famously known for his critique on society especially after the partition of subcontinent.