Okhay Avalray / اوکھے اولڑے

by Mumtaz Mufti

سنہ 1995ء میں، جو کہ ممتاز مفتی کا سال وفات بھی ہے، ان کے چھوتھے خاکوں کا مجموعہ "اوکھے اولڑے" کے عنوان سے طبع ہوا۔
اس کتاب میں چھبیس مضامین شامل ہیں۔ جن میں سے تین خود ممتاز مفتی کی شخصیت پر ہیں اور باقی تئیس میں سے ایک مضمون لوک ورثہ ان کی دوسرے کتاب اوکھے لوگ میں شامل مضمون لوک تماشا کا معمولی اضافہ شدہ ورژن ہے۔

236 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

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

[Beena Awan · Rating 5 out of 5]

We should all be reading more of Mumtaz Mumfti. This book, like, all of his other books make me want to read more of his books.