Title: Dabistānon kā Dabistān
Subtitle: Karāchi
Description: Karachi is the most important city of Pakistan. It remained the capital city for several years after Pakistan was founded in 1947. It has been one of the most important cosmopolitan cities of the Indian subcontinent. After independence, many writers, poets and scholars migrated to Pakistan. Many of them settled in Karachi making the city a centre of literary activities. This book contains biographical profiles of these literary personalities. The profiles include their published works & selections of their poetry collections as specimen. Writer Ahmad Husain Siddqi, an architect by profession, took pains in compiling the data about these personalities and self-published this to preserve the information for researchers, journalists & students and for posterity. This is the first pioneering volume after whcih the author published two more volumes.
Places: Many cities, towns and villages of the Indian subcontinent
People: Many. Please see the list of contents.
Time periods: Mid 1800s through 2002