Toward the end of the late Indian writer Ismat Chughtai’s short story “Mutti Maalish,” Ratti Bai, a hospital maid, describes to an upper-class patient two methods of abortion used by poor women in ...

“THE disappearance of readers of Urdu literature is not news anymore”, writes Ather Farouqui, a scholar and secretary of Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu Hind (ATUH), Delhi. Now Urdu’s literary gatherings do ...

The term ‘Urdu novel’ refers to fictional works that have emerged over the past one and a half centuries. Research published in literary magazine Adbiyaat’s special issue on the Urdu novel indicates ...