Monday 21 October 2013

My New Book, NEW URDU WRITINGS: FROM INDIA & PAKISTAN

Another new book, a collection of Urdu short stories, edited by me. Called NEW URDU WRITINGS: FROM INDIA AND PAKISTAN, it has 30 stories reflecting the best of contemporary Urdu fiction. Published by Westland, it will be formally launched in November. Meanwhile, it is available on Flipkart and other online stores as well as major bookstores in India. Here is a link:
http://www.flipkart.com/new-urdu-writings-india-pakistan/p/itmdp45w4fk9trfy?pid=9789383260379&otracker=from-search&srno=t_6&query=rakshanda+jalil&ref=cf7e648a-8a7d-4036-9a4f-20cf09be56a6




New Urdu Writings from India & Pakistan (Paperback) Price: Rs.328

This could easily be for audiences who read in both languages: Hindi and English. Further with Sufism coming up on the charts in music and films, this anthology could well become a favorite with those who are passionate about the sensibilities in the subcontinent: India, Pakistan and even Bangladesh. The sense of a great literary tradition and emotions which are similar. As the editor of this collection, Rakhshanda Jalil makes it amply clear in the Introduction It will make very little difference if you read this book from back to front or the other, more conventional way, around and puts the 30 stories from India and Pakistan in the context of a shared language involving similar emotions. If in the Mourner of the Feet, an itinerant shoe witnesses an adulterous wife with merciless hips conducting her marital life, in Revulsion a young boy chances upon the sexual escapades of an ageing maid with young servant boys, almost mirroring the desperation of the household ; in Joginder Pauls story, the futility of war between countries throws up a tragic-comic situation involving the picture of a girl child, even as a father awaiting his sons arrival on an airplane fervently prays for his co-travellers in Mansha Yads story; Laila in Jeelani Banos Empty Bottles is urban affluent and decidedly rejects her poetic lover for the comforts in her parents home and Sonu in Tarannum Riyazs City struggles to care for his infant sister and a dead mother in their fortified and spacious flat; Farzana blames her burqa for her transgression involving the murder of her children while Noor Bano is forcibly married to the Holy Quran and defiantly.

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  1. This web side royeche ten naked abaido yauna transmitted video cie इस वेब साइड royeche दस नग्न abaido yauna प्रेषित वीडियो सीआईई




    1 / Calcutta, father and their baby daughter yauna transmitted daughter's stomach, police grepatarera = 1 on the vedio Images Vedio छवियाँ पर 1 / कोलकाता, पिता और उनके बच्चे बेटी प्रेषित yauna बेटी के पेट, पुलिस grepatarera =1




    2/ naika sabanura hotel intercourse with her boyfriend on the real = two vedio वास्तविक = दो vedio पर उसके प्रेमी के साथ रे / naika sabanura होटल संभोग




    3 / aunt nephew with the sexually transmitted real = 5 vedio image / यौन साथ 3 / चाची भतीजे वास्तविक = 5 vedio छवि को प्रेषित .Disclosure




    4 / mother and son killed parents on jauno obstructs Milne parents. And the mother's sexual intercourse = 3 vedio. Issued 4 / माँ और बेटे jauno पर माता-पिता मिल्ने माता-पिता भी नुकसान पहुँचा मार डाला। और माँ का संभोग 3 vedio =। जारी



    5 / dulabhai salike wanted to force the video clip had been forced to repeatedly salike = 6 vedio. Issued 5 / dulabhai salike वीडियो क्लिप को बार-बार salike = 6 vedio करने के लिए मजबूर किया गया था के लिए मजबूर करना चाहता था। जारी




    6 / praibeta master daughter sexually transmitted = 1 vedio. Issued 6 / praibeta मास्टर बेटी का यौन। = 1 vedio प्रेषित जारी। phone sex 6 hours 40 tk =01916966365




    7 / big brother's wife wanted video jimmikare repeatedly forced sexual intercourse = 8 vedio. Issued 7 / बड़े भाई की पत्नी के वीडियो jimmikare बार-बार संभोग = 8 vedio मजबूर करना चाहता था। जारी




    8 / younger man to take the water to the hotel codarapara = two vedio sister होटल codarapara करने के लिए पानी लेने के लिए 8 / छोटे आदमी = माँ पर दो vedio बहन ।




    9 / Mama told her bhagnike Thailand engaged in the business of the body of his uncle filed bhagni = 10 vedio business man on the body of his niece 9 / माँ थाईलैंड उनके चाचा के शरीर के कारोबार में लगे bhagnike उसे बताया कि उसकी भतीजी के शरीर पर bhagni = 10 vedio व्यापार आदमी दायर।




    10 / maternal sister to marry the rape failing mamike three Bandeau vedio prakasa = 4 vedio sister 10 / मातृ बहन mamike तीन Bandeau vedio Prakasa = 4 vedio प्रेषित जारी

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