Re: Faiz - A controversial interview
mentioning fact is not being ethnic my dear. Its a fact that these were the first writers who bring issues of rural Sindh on national media in the form of dram only in mid 1980s. if you can prove otherwise, you are welcome to do so.
Abdul qadir Junejo wrote ‘Ghar Galiyan aur Raste’ dealing with problems of feudal Punjab, Noorulhuda Shah wrote ‘Ajnabi Raste’ raising voice against the problems of Urban lady who belonged to a feudal family. Now these are drama writers and they tried to convey problems of people they live in between.
If you are interested in a novel dealing with rural Punajb’s issues, Punjabi novel ‘TawaN TawaN taare’ by Mansha yad and ‘des huwe pardes’ and ’ Khas o Khashak Zamane’ by Mustansar Hussain TaraR all writeen after 1980s.
PS: By no way, I’m saying that Urdu writers shown bias against the issues of problems of people living in rural areas, they could not touch these topics because trauma of partition was so strong that all famous urdu writers like Quratulain Haider, Saadat Hussain manto, Intezar Hussain, kept on repeating the stories revolving around partition. Its a natural phenomenon for a writer to convey what he / she experiences.
if we keep all this background in mind, we may not found interviewers questions biased based on hatred or for belittling Urdu and that from a Poet jiska ORhna bichona Urdu tha.