Bookshops that used to sell Urdu fiction and poetry in Old city’s Gulzar Houz area in Hyderabad have given way to garment shops and eateries, owners say business has taken a severe hit. Dressed in a spotless white kurta-pajama, Nizamuddin, 57, is a picture of despair as he dusts a few books and arranges them […]
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How Pandemic Deprived ‘Urdu Literature Admirers’ Disturbed Rudely?
The Carona pandemic made the world with its impact miserably unorganized. The Discussions and debates, critiques and readings, held at haunts of Urdu books and writing around the country have been interrupted rudely. In Hyderabad – A writer recounted similar thoughts after the death of noted Urdu satirist Mujtaba Hussain in Hyderabad on May 27. […]