The Days and Nights of Lahore in Shehr-e-Bemisal

Abstract
Bano Qudsia was a novelist, fictionist, playwright, autobiographer, and spiritualist. She wrote Urdu literature distinctively in producing novels, drama plays and short stories. However, she succeeded in marking her eminent place as a novelist. She authored several memorable novels which remained in the living minds, and it includes 'Raja Gidh (The king Vulture)' which is well revered among readers of Urdu literature. This article is written on her novel 'Sheher e Bemasal' which is a book mark novel of the author; and it was actually written about 'the city of Lahore'. Banu Qudsia had clearly described the retrogression of civilization, ruination of values and custom, depravation, dorsoventrally contradiction, psychical intricacy and mental complexity of this city in said novel . This research article not only shower lights on all aforementioned components but effort has also been made for a critical review of said aspects.

Ammara Tariq. (2019) شہر بے مثال میں لاہور کے شب و روز, Tahqeeq Nama, Volume 25, Issue 1.
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