“THE reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”, quipped Mark Twain when a newspaperman informed him about his obituary published in a newspaper. Of late, the rumours about the death of Urdu ...
Last month I was in Delhi for Sahitya Akademi’s three-day seminar called “Literary Theory and Poetics with Special Focus on Urdu and Manto.” Manto was influenced by theories borrowed from the West, ...