Bøger af Ehtisham Hussain

Ehtisham Hussain was born on April 21, 1922 in Mahil, a town in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India. In 1936, after completing his MA from Allahabad, he was appointed as a lecturer in Urdu at Lucknow University. Then he became a professor of Urdu at Allahabad University. Ideologically, he was associated with the progressive movement. Therefore, Marxist influences can be easily felt on his criticism. In 1954, he was invited by an association in America to study intellectual trends there, a year later he returned from America and London and published his observations in a book called 'Sahil-o-Samundar'. Eight collections of critical essays have been published. In which 'Tanqeedi Jayeze', 'Riwayat-o-Baghawat', 'Tanqeed-o-Ilmi Tanqeed' and 'Aitabaar-e-Nazar' are particularly noteworthy. 'Virane' is a collection of short-stories. This book is also based on Urdu historical story. This story is quite long but this book narrates this long story in short which is useful for both scholars and students.