When it comes to Urdu humour,Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi is right up there among the very best.
There is just one little problem,however.The language is a bit difficult and the reader may need the help of an Urdu dictionary,every now and then.
After I first read this book,I kept wondering what the title "Khakam Budhan" meant.Had to ask google for help and found that it means,"dust in my mouth."
Yousufi's humour is one of a kind.It makes a sudden appearance and can make the reader double over with laughter.His two best books for me are this one and Chiragh Talay.Zarguzasht is good too,but the language is pretty difficult.
And not to forget the youtube clips if one searches Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi where he reads his work aloud,it's delightful.
Yousufi wrote very few books,and they were published years apart.Wish he had written more,I read somewhere that he destroyed several of his manuscripts,before publication as they didn't meet his personal high standards.
I suppose there would have been plenty of laughs in those destroyed pages too.Now the reader has to be content with just a few books he deemed worthy of publication.