Tag: Calcutta
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Contemporary Urdu Short Stories from Kolkata: An Excerpt
The name says it all; Contemporary Urdu Short Stories from Kolkata is an anthology of stories from writers like Sayeed Premi, Firoz Abid, Anis Rafi, Siddique Alam, Mahmoud Yasien, Shahira Masroor, Anisun Nabi and Reyaz Danish. The stories, originally written in Urdu, have been translated into English by Shams Afif Siddiqi, a former associate professor…
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Cityscapes: Memorable Books on Indian Cities (Part II)
In Cityscapes Part I, we listed our favourite books on Allahabad, Banaras and Bombay. Here, in the second part, we talk about books on Calcutta, Lucknow, Ludhiana and Madras. CALCUTTA Longing Belonging: An Outsider at Home in Calcutta, by Bishwanath Ghosh‘Calcutta was no longer an old piece of furniture in the attic. It was an…