- Index of Books 179898
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Book Categories
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Activities76
Children's Literature1991
Drama928 Education345 Essays & Profiles1394 Fiction1604 Health105 History3320Humorous613 Journalism202 Language & Literature1731 Letters746
Life Style30 Medicine977 Movements277 Novel4313 Political356 Religions4770Research & Criticism6671Short-story2704 Sketches248 Social issues111 Sufism / Mystic2058Text Books466 Translation4305Women's writings5900-
Book Categories
- Bait Bazi14
- Catalogue / Index4
- Couplets68
- Deewan1305
- Doha48
- Epics101
- Exegesis182
- Geet64
- Ghazal1259
- Haiku12
- Hamd50
- Humorous33
- Intikhab1613
- Keh mukarni7
- Kulliyat585
- Mahiya20
- Majmua4862
- Marsiya388
- Masnavi774
- Musaddas41
- Naat578
- Nazm1194
- Others82
- Paheli15
- Qasida186
- Qawwali17
- Qit'a68
- Quatrain274
- Quintuple16
- Rekhti12
- Remainders17
- Salaam32
- Sehra12
- shahr-Ashob, Hajw, Zatal Nama18
- Tareekh-Goi27
- Translation68
- Wasokht26
Profile of K.C. Kanda
K.C. Kanda holds a doctorate in English and a first-class first Masters degree in Urdu literature. It was this double competence in English and Urdu, and his life-long adoration of Urdu poetry, that prompted him to undertake the translation of the best of Urdu poetry into English. A recipient of the Delhi Urdu Academy Award for 'excellence in translation' in 1998, his first book, Masterpieces of Urdu Ghazal, was published in 1990. Since then, he has produced eight other books of this kind on Urdu Poetry and on individual poets like Mir Taqi Mir and Firaq Gorakhpuri. All these books (published by Sterling) are very well received by the readers, and have run into several editions. In addition, he has written the following books relating to English poetry: An Anthology of English Poetry (Arnold Heinemann), The Two Worlds of Tennyson (Doaba), Tennyson's In Memoriam (Sterling), and Browning's Selected Dramatic Monologues (Sterling).
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Bilingual scholar translating Urdu poetry into English, honored for excellence in translation.
Bilingual scholar translating Urdu poetry into English, honored for excellence in translation.
