Comments on: Conversation with renowed author Qurratulain Hyder

By: Tariq Mahmud

Tariq Mahmud — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:58:13 +0000

Thank you Rumi for you lovely piece. QH was, is and shall remain the greatest writer ever. Her writings tell us about our origins and linkages, cultural, emotional and historical, which , very unfortunately, we are being made to forget by forces beyond our control.

By: Legendary Writer Qurratulain Hyder Passes Away at Indian Muslims

Legendary Writer Qurratulain Hyder Passes Away at Indian Muslims — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:43:21 +0000

[...] Rumi visited Hyder in March earlier this year and wrote a touching post at this blog. An excerpt: On my first visit to [...]

By: saifaliahmad

saifaliahmad — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:41:09 +0000

Raza bhai salam. ainee apa opened many unlocked doors and helped me overcome the ignorance of my people, both the era gone and existing, with her small details and beautiful narration i would go on reading with frustration either in english or hindi, hoping if given one chance in past i would have taken hafiz ji more seriously. irrespective of his beatings n curses. what a loss.

open the page and im transformed back to my village, smelling the “aam ka dharakth”, or just see “mian” walking with hukka, open breeze of my land,so pure and unbroken,certainly miss hyder gives me in her writings the people n faces i so desperatly look for.

By: razarumi

razarumi — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:53:08 +0000

Adnan, Mahi and Mohib

Many thanks for your comments and appreciation. It is indeed a pleasure that there are people in the blogosphere who appreciate the nuances of literature. Alas Ainee is not that well known in India other than the high brow cultured individuals and the Urdu readers. She has been translated but not in the manner that she should have been and her own translations are selective.

This is a pity since she symbolizes the composite culture that the nationalist movement had envisioned for India and she provides the finest literary and cultural backdrop to what India is today.

By: mahi

mahi — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:19:38 +0000

Raza, as usual you’ve done a great job expressing yourself. It was a pleasure reading this.

By: DesiPundit » Archives » Meeting a living legend

DesiPundit » Archives » Meeting a living legend — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:07:29 +0000

[...] Rumi, guest blogging at Indian Muslims has a delightful post on his meeting with Qurratulain Hyder (affectionately knows as Ainee Apa). Ainee is arguably the greatest living Urdu writer. The Times [...]

By: Mohib

Mohib — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:32:34 +0000

Awesome!

Thanks a lot, Raza saahab, for sharing this beautiful piece with us. Also, please do visit Lucknow but don’t be surprised if you find it different from the nostalgic memories of people like Ainee aapa. Lucknow has changed a lot.

By: Adnan

Adnan — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:12:31 +0000

Great post. I share the sentiment about Aakhir-e-shab ke hamsafar. Aag ka Darya is a magnum opus and I don’t know how many times I have read and re-read particular chapters on Oudh, the era of Asifuddaula, the journeys of Manoranjan dutt to Lucknow, lives of Gautam Neelambar and Cyril, and yes, Kamal Haider Raza. Kaar-e-Jahaan daraaz hai…is also wonderful.
In a way she was fortunate that she had both Shia and Sunni influence from her parents. خیر چاھے کویء بورژوا ک�?ے یا کچھ اور، اب ن�? تو نیء نسل میں کویء عینی نظر آتی �?یں اور ن�? �?ی شوکت صدیقی