Luckily, Mehmil (or, literally, a saddle of a camel that carried women travellers), an anthology of Urdu short stories by women writers, had appeared in 1947 from Badayun. Compiled by some Mujid ...

THE standards of Urdu have suffered a tangible lapse and we have come to terms with the tragedy. But one’s heart sinks when one listens to some so-called professors of Urdu mispronounce shehr aashob, ...