Bengali scholar Bani Basu’s novel ‘A Plate of White Marble’ — first published in 1990 in Bengali — gives English readers their first authentic taste of a stunning literary classic.
Intrigued by how Indian writers in Urdu view women and write about them, literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil has put together an anthology ‘Preeto’ with short stories that focus on their portrayal of women in their writing.