Chand Gehan / چاند گہن pdf self-humiliation

Intizar Husain 1925 2016 was a journalist short story writer and novelist widely considered one of the most significant fiction writers in Urdu Born in Dibai Bulandshahr in British administered India he migrated to Pakistan in 1947 and lived in Lahore Besides Basti he was the author of two other novels Naya Gar The New House which paints a picture of Pakistan during the ten year dictatorship of the Islamic fundamentalist General Zia ul Haq and Agay Sumandar Hai Beyond Is the Sea which juxtaposes the spiraling urban violence of contemporary Karachi with a vision of the lost Islamic realm of al Andalus Collections of Husain s celebrated short stories have appeared in English under the titles Leaves The Seventh Door A Chr Intizar Husain 1925 2016 was a journalist short story writer and novelist widely considered one of the most significant fiction writers in Urdu Born in Dibai Bulandshahr in British administered India he migrated to Pakistan in 1947 and lived in Lahore Besides Basti he was the author of two other novels Naya Gar The New House which paints a picture of Pakistan during the ten year dictatorship of the Islamic fundamentalist General Zia ul Haq and Agay Sumandar Hai Beyond Is the Sea which juxtaposes the spiraling urban violence of contemporary Karachi with a vision of the lost Islamic realm of al Andalus Collections of Husain s celebrated short stories have appeared in English under the titles Leaves The Seventh Door A Chronicle of the Peacocks and An Unwritten Epic site_link A very slow start but around the halfway point picks up The narrative becomes tighter and the expression becomes clearer The second half is definitely worth reading especially if you enjoy the recurring theme of migration and the longing for a piece of your existence that seems lost afterwards Having said all that the story should have been far coherent and for a novelette length expected less deviation 9693506170 A very existentialist novel set in the backdrop of partition which is also an elegy for the unfulfilled Muslim intellectual in the 2oth century The lunar eclipse is used very aesthetically to metaphorically allude to the Muslim civilization in decline in India on the eve of partition and independence especially in its erstwhile nucleus i. Chand gehan / چاند گہنw ewa e Delhi Its principal character Sibtain is an intellectual who dreams of reawakening the Muslim masses through teaching and mass media His coterie of friends like Kaale Khan Fayyaz Khan Rafia Allan his mother Bo Ji and Mr Haq the local Muslim League leader make up the rest of the cast successfully create the decaying traditional world of old Delhi caught in a frenzy of tumult as the partition is set to displace and replace whole communities in Northern India The train journey in which these forced immigrants undertake is breathtaking for the readers the characters tightly packed into a sweaty compartment wait with bated breaths on every stoppage for an impending attack especially through East Punjab However the euphoria that they experience on reaching Atari slowly and gradually dissipates as they settle down to the reality that opportunities in the promised land were really for the most unscrupulously opportunistic Readers of Partition based fiction would be pleasantly surprised by the unconventional style of this novel An underrated gem amongst Intezar Sahib s works 9693506170