This is a review of the book Bayad-i-Suhbat-i-Nazuk Khayalan, published in Herald, sometime in 1998 The biographical sketches contained in this book are based on the memories of the author, who had long term associations with most of the celebrities described here. Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Dr. Taseer, Majeed Malik, Noon Meem Rashid, Mohammad Hasan Askari […]
Herald, sometime in 1998 Khwab Farosh By Ahmed Dawood Published by Dost Publications, Islamabad Price: Rs. 100 Khwab Farosh, published almost three years after the death of its author, is perhaps the last collection of Urdu short stories by Ahmed Dawood. “You remember the good old days when love had not shifted to prohibited territory
This review was published in Herald, November 1997. In the light of my subsequent research, I am no longer quite sure about what I had suggested here about the works of Stanley Wolpert and Ayesha Jalal, i.e. they are “the two powerful accounts of Jinnah’s career ever to be written – and his most convincing