Sunday, June 26, 2011

Dr Arif-ul-Islam

He is professor in the statistics section of Women's College at AMU. Has written several books-fiction and non-fiction. He uses fiction too for some purpose. The idea in fiction is that many of the things that you can not say yourself you can get them uttered by the characters. Smart choice indeed. But then if you can not say something yourself then is it not better to leave it unsaid? Hikayat bood bepayaan ba khamoshi ada kardam. (There were to many stories so told them silently.) His book Ataturk Fi Karbala got published as Conflict Zones in English and here is a review.
The book’s importance also lies in the fact that very few original works in English, fiction in particular, recounts student life at AMU.
Then Professor Shafey Kidwai in Hindu.
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 Urdu version had many more reviews.