Issue 28, Nov-Dec 2009 


Focus – Hindi-Urdu Literary Cultures




A couple at minaret

Photo Credit – instagoogle.instablogs.com

This section presents images of various monuments with a rich blend of Indo-Persian styles from across India and Pakistan. These are from different websites and we are thankful to them.



Editorial
Sukrita Paul Kumar – Editorial Note

Some Comments and Poems on Hindi and Urdu
Susham Bedi - Two Sides of a Coin
David Matthews - Urdu in India
Gulzar - Poem and Comment
Alok Rai and Shahid Amin- A Dialogue
Pankaj Singh - 'For My Hindi'

Short Shorts
Joginder Paul - Short Shorts (Urdu)
Uday Prakash - Short Shorts (Hindi)

Stories
Punni Singh - ‘The Infidel Parrot’ (Hindi)
Padma Sachdev - ‘Where has my Gulla gone?’ (Hindi)
Shaukat Hayat – ‘The Crocodile’ (Urdu)
Shamoil Ahmed – ‘The Dressing Table’ (Urdu)

Poems
Ghalib - A Ghazal: New Translation (Urdu)
Kunwar Narain – ‘Ayodhya’ (Hindi)
Nabina Das – ‘The Message Tree’

Essay
Mahadevi Varma - 'Links in our Chain' (Hindi)