Ahmed TauseefAurangabad: The city of Aurangabad hosted one of the towering personalities of Urdu literature---- Intezaar Hussain recently.
Hussain, a Pakistan based internationally renowned novelist and storyteller was in the city on a tour arranged by Sahitya Akademy, Delhi in the backdrop of first Munshi Premchand fellowship award offered to the writer.
Hussain, an 83-year-old young man as one of his friends introduced him to the audience, regaled Urdu lovers by giving the readings of his most read short stories.
While talking to Aurangabad Plus he stressed on the need of exchange of literature between India and Pakistan so that it helps understanding each other in a finer way.
The writer in one of his lectures turned a bit nostalgic and reminded the common culture shared among people of sub-continent before partition. He gave message of peace and love in all his lectures and held Urdu and literature as instrumental in shaping the common ideology of people of sub-continent.
A celebrated writer Hussain described the beauty and culture of Aurangabad in his own fashion. He termed the city as 'ajeeb-o-ghareeb shaher' (a city of its own kind). He was awestruck by the beauty of Ellora and Ajanta to an extent that he said it was hard to believe that they were built by human beings thousands of years ago.
Hussain was born at Dibai (India) in 1925 and was educated in Meerut. He migrated to the city of Lahore in 1947 and has been based there ever since. His story
Gadariya (Shepherd) is one of the most read stories of Urdu literature. To his credit Hussain has six collections of shorts stories and three novels. He is a creative writer, critic, columnist and translator as well.
One of his novels on Partition, Basti (Town), has been translated into English by Harper Collins. Basti, one of the best novels in modern Urdu, deals with the emotive appeal of loss of homeland, love and roots of people stranded in the catastrophe.
Hussain, a Pakistan based internationally renowned novelist and storyteller was in the city on a tour arranged by Sahitya Akademy, Delhi in the backdrop of first Munshi Premchand fellowship award offered to the writer.
Hussain, an 83-year-old young man as one of his friends introduced him to the audience, regaled Urdu lovers by giving the readings of his most read short stories.
While talking to Aurangabad Plus he stressed on the need of exchange of literature between India and Pakistan so that it helps understanding each other in a finer way.
The writer in one of his lectures turned a bit nostalgic and reminded the common culture shared among people of sub-continent before partition. He gave message of peace and love in all his lectures and held Urdu and literature as instrumental in shaping the common ideology of people of sub-continent.
A celebrated writer Hussain described the beauty and culture of Aurangabad in his own fashion. He termed the city as 'ajeeb-o-ghareeb shaher' (a city of its own kind). He was awestruck by the beauty of Ellora and Ajanta to an extent that he said it was hard to believe that they were built by human beings thousands of years ago.
Hussain was born at Dibai (India) in 1925 and was educated in Meerut. He migrated to the city of Lahore in 1947 and has been based there ever since. His story
Gadariya (Shepherd) is one of the most read stories of Urdu literature. To his credit Hussain has six collections of shorts stories and three novels. He is a creative writer, critic, columnist and translator as well.
One of his novels on Partition, Basti (Town), has been translated into English by Harper Collins. Basti, one of the best novels in modern Urdu, deals with the emotive appeal of loss of homeland, love and roots of people stranded in the catastrophe.
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