Nastalgia in Quratul Ain Haider's Novel “Mere Bhi Sanam Khanay”
Keywords:
Quratulain Haider, Urdu novelist, ''mery be sanam khany'', nostalgia and memories of past.Abstract
Quratulain Haider was an Indian and Pakistani Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic and journalist. Popularly known as ''Ainee Apaa''among her friend and admirers. She was the daughter of a writer and pioneers of Urdu short story writer Sajjad Haider Yildraim. She has a literary background. She also started writing at the age of six. After partition she came into Pakistan, but in 1960 she went back to India. Her first novel ''mery be sanam khany'' was published in 1949.We found nostalgia and memories of past in her stories as she also experiences as well as she saw all that period with her own eyes. She was also awarded with Janapith award, Sahitya Akademi award and Padma Bhushan award.