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Pakistani
tourist from Pakistan Adnan clad in shalwar kameez waiting to board Emirates
flight to Pakistan, sitting in airport lounge of Dubai International airport,
was reading tech news in his tablet, and suddenly heard an email alert sound in
his smartphone. When he swiped up mobile screen to read, it was book review
alert on Urdu novel
آگے سمندر ہے by Intizar Hussain
This Urdu
novel Aagay Samunder Hai was published in 1998. In English translation, the name of Urdu
novel آگے سمندر ہے would be There is sea ahead. Jawad Hassan,
Maimuna, Majboor are three main characters and other historical and cultural
figures including Qurtuba (Córdoba), Gharnata (Granada), and Sham (Damascus).
It was a
time when Pakistan and India got independence from British in 1947, protagonist
named Jawad Hassan had to leave India and migrated into Pakistan. But he left
behind his ancestral home and fiancée, Maimuna in India. Majboor, brother of
Jawad supported him after migration because it was new place for him.
Reading this
novel would take back Urdu readers back into the past of 1947 era. The new and
old generation both would be reading with interest about the old traditions at
the time of independence.
When finished reading, Adnan shared book review on his Facebook account with followers.
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