A Brief Survey Of Pakistani Novels In English

I can hear a horse come along clippity-clop.....aaah! yes, its ana on her latest favourite hobby horse :D :D :D
lol!

Kamath,

Everyone makes mistakes here on Chowk, but if you think it is okay to come across looking like someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about - and I've done that often enough - then more power to you.

This isn't just a place where people come puffed up to put one another down, or a whole nation. This is also a place where people share serious interest in literature and music, and the arts. I'm sure Manoj is very interested in Pakistani novels and who should be considered a Pakistani novelist. It helps both Chowk as a "credible" website and Manoj to get certain things right.

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Why waste time editing articles? Chowkees are known for making no mistakes! .
kamath

Ana, thanks for pointing out errors.

haha kulharee.

A good overview considering that the country is only about 60year old and it still managed to pop out a few good ones. Kumar, you should also have included the future talent from Pakistan, writers such as Feroz Qutabshahi, aka Kulharee. My favorites on your list are Bapsi Sidva and Kureishi. Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke was good but I didn’t care much for the Reluctant Fundamentalist, however I admire his style. Tariq Ali is a hit or a miss, mostly a miss.

Good job.

Ana, in their defense, all their time is spent censoring my articles and banning me for 15 days straight for one post- that is a full time job especially when I fire off posts upon my return that require checking every word to see if I have transgressed so I can be banned for another half a month- others like hamid are roaming free even after their post was filtered yesterday.

TNITC masadi

Chowk staff:

Seriously, have you stopped editing articles before posting them on the front page?

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Kumar Manoj:

The survey is brief indeed, and for someone who obviously was interested enough to write this, it would have done you good to at least spell the names of the writers correctly.

It's Kamila Shamsie, and the writer of "The Buddha of Suburbia" among other novels does not spell his last name as Qureshi (even though that's how it should be spelled). He spells his name as Hanif Kureishi.

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Cobra:

I guess you've made it your goal on Chowk never to sound intelligent.

Thanks for the very brief overview. You missed Suhaiyl Saadi, a brilliant Pakistani Scot, whose novel Psychoraag is one of a kind and made it on the list of the Top 100 Scottish novels of all time.

I've read almost all the authors on your list (and reviewed one or two on Chowk!) and the best are Nadeem Aslam and Ahmad Ali plus the gentleman mentioned above.

"Before this date the areas now comprising Pakistan were parts of Indian Subcontinent."

You will be flogged for this and tried under blasphemy laws if you are a hanood.