: Afra Bukhari (1938-2022): The short story writer from Pakistan was among the last of a generation #IndiaNEWS It was a little over a month ago that Aamir Faraz – the late Afra Bukhari’s son and

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Afra Bukhari (1938-2022): The short story writer from Pakistan was among the last of a generation #IndiaNEWS
It was a little over a month ago that Aamir Faraz – the late Afra Bukhari’s son and now literary heir – had told me over the phone that his mother’s new short story collection Sang-e-Siyah (Black Stone) had just come out. I had wanted to review the book and also meet its octogenarian author to talk about her life and craft. But on the afternoon of January 3, 2022, news began circulating on social media that Afra Bukhari had died. This news was unexpected, for she was not known to have been ill, even though she was, of course, 83. Bukhari belonged to that remarkable generation of women writers in Urdu, born between 1925 and 1940, whose ranks included the novelists Masroor Jahan, Altaf Fatima, Jilani Bano, Parveen Atif, Khalida Husain, Nisar Aziz Butt, Razia Faseeh Ahmad, and the short story writer Wajida Tabassum. With her passing, only two from that generation remain: Faseeh Ahmad from Pakistan and Bano from India. Of the rest, all but Tabassum (who died in 2011) have died in the past four years.From Amritsar to LahoreBukhari has said, “I wrote what I saw in society.� Rather than colours, she wrote in black and white, often bringing out the pain of the...Read more

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