A thousand yearnings
Subtitle: a book of Urdu poetry and verse
By: translated and introduced by Ralph Russell ; edited and with a foreword by Marion Molteno
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New Delhi, India
Language: eng; urd
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9789386702166
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Urdu literature; Translations into English
Other titles: Hidden in the lute.
Notes: Revised edition of: Hidden in the lute : an anthology of two centuries of Urdu literature, published in the UK by Carcanet Press in 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-381).
Table of contents: title: Short stories and sketches. Prem Chand: A wife's complaint. Ismat Chughtai: Tiny's granny. Rashid Jahan: Behind the veil. Krishan Chander: Kalu Bhangi. Saadat Hasan Manto: The black shalwar. Shaukat Thanavi: Love and prudence. Ismat Chughtai: Hellbound; title: Popular literature. Outwitting the powerful. Akbar and Birbal.  Mullah Dopiaza. Shaikh Chilli. Tales of famous men. The creation of Adam and the loss of paradise. Sikandar, Khizar, and the water of life. Khwaja Hasan Nizami: Guests are pests; title: Love poetry. The ghazals of Mir and Ghalib. Hasrat Mohani and Momin: Lovers' meetings. Mir: The ideal ghazal lover. Ghalib's more nuanced view of love. Mystic love. The challenge to orthodoxy. The humanist values of the ghazal. God and humankind. The poet in society. Ghalib's personal philosophy. Images and allusions. Eleven ghazals of Ghalib. A living tradition; title: The lives of poets. Muhammad Husain Azad: Nasikh : the portrait of a poet. Abdul Halim Sharar : The king and the singer. Farhatullah Beg: A memorable Delhi mushaira. Altaf Husain Hali: A memoir of Ghalib. Ghalib: Letters. The 'New Light' : responding to social change. Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Aligarh Movement. Akbar Ilahabadi: Satire in a changing society. The novel. Rusva: Umrao Jan Ada.