Birds in Flight - Softcover

Rashmi, Govind

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143471627 ISBN 13: 9780143471622

Publisher: Penguin Random House India, 2025

Synopsis

Come, sit on these pages awhile to admire, ponder over, and sometimes get lost in the profound wisdom and hidden truths of these fleeting creations that Joginder Paul offers. Bird in Flight, a volume of afsanche (flash fiction) by Paul, brings to you another facet of his artistry. These micro stories are slices of life that have been transmuted into sparkling gems of creativity. With such constraint on the use of words and so much abandon in meaning making, the reader is sure to feel the expanse of the artist's vision captured consummately within the confines of the brevity of the microfiction form. Though known for his short stories and novels, Joginder Paul has been a pioneer of the afsanche form in Urdu literary writing. These short shorts are as much the reader’s as they are the author’s, and the translator’s, because they invite creative participation. And yet they have an autonomy that makes them experiences to be felt rather than narratives to be read―such is the genius of Paul’s musings.

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About the Author

Rashmi Govind was born in Chhapra, Bihar, into a scholarly family. She took her degrees in English at the University of Delhi, and in Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She taught English at Zakir Husain Delhi College for over four decades and has translated several texts into English from Hindi and Urdu. The Song of the Loom, her translation from the original Hindi Jhini Jhini Bini Chadariya by Abdul Bismilla, has been published by Macmillan. She has translated Hindi short stories by Rajendra Yadav, Bhisham Sahni, Nirmal Verma and Anwar Qamar, and an Urdu one by Zaheda Hina, into English.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Random House India
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143471627
• ISBN 13: 9780143471622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216