Male Gaze in Urdu Literature: Is It an Overt #Metoo Movement?

Male Gaze in Urdu Literature: Is It an Overt #Metoo Movement? 
That's the question we'd like to ask today.

Niyogi Books and Oxford Bookstore invite you at the book launch of Preeto and Other Stories: The Male Gaze in Urdu, celebrating the new-age women.

In conversation with:

Rakhshanda Jalil, writer, translator and literary historian,

Nistha Gautam, Opinion Editor, The Quint,

Mayank Austen Soofi, Delhi's famed photo archiver and writer

The event will be moderated by:

Poonam Saxena, a translator and national weekend editor, Hindustan Times

About the Author:
Rakhshanda Jalil writes on issues of literature, culture and heritage. She has published over 15 books. Some of them include: two edited collections of short stories, Urdu Stories and a selection by Pakistani women called Neither Night Nor Day; two co-authored books with Mushirul Hasan, Partners in Freedom: Jamia Millia Islamia (Niyogi Books, 2006) and Journey to a Holy Land: A Pilgrim’s Diary. She was co-editor of Third Frame, a journal devoted to literature, culture and society brought out by the Cambridge University Press. She has published six works of translations; the latest being Naked Voices & Other Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto; Panchlight and Other Stories by Hindi writer Phanishwarnath Renu. She runs an organization called Hindustani Awaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi-Urdu literature and culture.

About the Book
'Preeto & Other Stories' is a collection of stories that delves into themes that are timeless, as well as topics that are an outcome of the times we live in. Starting with two of the four pillars of the Urdu short stories, Rajinder Singh Bedi and Krishan Chandar, who can be credited with introducing a realistic portrayal of women in Urdu fiction, the stories in this volume offer multiple ways of ‘seeing’ women.

This anthology also features stories by other famous Urdu writers, including Gulzar, Deepak Budki, and Baig Ehsas.

Date: Saturday, 12 January 2019
Time: 6 PM onwards
Venue: Oxford Bookstore, Connaught Place, New Delhi