Roghni Putlay / روغنی پتلے

by Mumtaz Mufti

244 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Mumtaz Mufti (Sitara-e-Imtiaz) is a Pakistani short story writer. He started writing Urdu short stories while working as a school teacher before partition. In the beginning he was considered among his contemporaries, a non-conformist writer having liberal views, who appeared influenced by Freud. His transformation from Liberalism to Sufism was due to his inspiration from Qudrat Ullah Shahab (Another well known Pakistani Author). At the same time, he did manage to retain his individual accent and wrote on subjects which were frowned upon by the conservative elements in society.

The two phases of his life are witnessed by his autobiographies, Ali Pur Ka Aeeli and Alakh Nagri. According to forewords mentioned in his later autobiography, Ali Pur Ka Aeeli is an account of a lover who challenged the social taboos of his times, and Alakh Nagri is an account of an acolyte who greatly influenced by the mysticism of Qudrat Ullah Shahab.

Talaash ("Quest") was the last book written by Mumtaz Mufti.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this one in a combined volume named MUFTIANAY.
Domonhi,Lady doctor,Bush aur bushra and a lots of other short stories simply ROCK.
Mufti weaves short stories like a spider weaves it,s web.

[Rabbia Riaz · Rating 4 out of 5]

A satire on so-called Modernism

[sohail bhatti · Rating 4 out of 5]

ممتاز مفتی صاحب جس طرح کہانی کے تانے بانے بنتے ہیں وہ ان کا اپنا مخصوص انداز ہے۔ افسانہ ایک کے بعد دوسرا پھر تیسرا پڑھنے کا تجسس، پھر معلوم ہوا کہ کتاب مکمل ہو گئی اور رات آدھی سے زیادہ گزر گئی۔

[Seemab Barham · Rating 5 out of 5]

1 ڈائری
2 ایلینز
3 پرانی شراب، نئی بوتل

اس کتاب میں شامل بہترین افسانے ہیں ،