Biographical and Critical Notes Resources from Literature Directory

A 21st-Century reader offers online comments on Taufiq Rafat's poem. Full text of the poem included. -

A list of well-known authors from Pakistan and the Indian Subcontinent. The main site has many useful links. -

A socio-political take on a classic Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi (1940). -

Author's discussion of his books and Western literature; also comments on life and work in general. -

Bapsi Sidhwa in interview about her novels and herself as a Pakistani Parsi woman and U.S. immigrant. -

Biographical information and news about her novel Salt and Saffron with other links. -

Mohsin Hamid's first novel is reviewed here. -

Novelist Zameenzad's life and books described briefly. -

Part interview the article shows the author's life and ideas reflected in her novel. -

Partition - Tariq Ali and Ken McMullen have adapted a short story by Saadat Hasan Manto about the partition of the Subcontinent for a 90-minute film. Intro and stills are given here.

Reflection on literary biography and a list of titles by the author together with criticism about each title which has reference value. Author's email address included. -

The ghazal verse-form is described as in Urdu and some other languages. -

The New York Review of Books reviews Mohsin Hamid's novel Moth Smoke (2000) -

The newspaper reportage on the young novelist and her two novels is recent and usable. -

This is a sketch of a woman parliamentarian who also wrote prose works in English and Urdu. -

This is a useful and relevant introduction to the work of the major English poet and scholar Professor Alamgir Hashmi who suggested important principles of cultural coexistene a quarter century ago. -