- Index of Books 179280
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Book Categories
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Activities76
Children's Literature1993
Drama928 Education346 Essays & Profiles1391 Fiction1600 Health105 History3316Humorous613 Journalism203 Language & Literature1731 Letters744
Life Style30 Medicine982 Movements277 Novel4317 Political355 Religions4765Research & Criticism6658Short-story2704 Sketches250 Social issues111 Sufism / Mystic2066Text Books457 Translation4304Women's writings5894-
Book Categories
- Bait Bazi14
- Catalogue / Index4
- Couplets68
- Deewan1303
- Doha48
- Epics101
- Exegesis182
- Geet64
- Ghazal1257
- Haiku12
- Hamd50
- Humorous33
- Intikhab1609
- Keh mukarni7
- Kulliyat585
- Mahiya20
- Majmua4874
- Marsiya389
- Masnavi774
- Musaddas41
- Naat580
- Nazm1195
- Others82
- Paheli15
- Qasida185
- Qawwali17
- Qit'a68
- Quatrain275
- Quintuple16
- Rekhti12
- Remainders17
- Salaam32
- Sehra12
- shahr-Ashob, Hajw, Zatal Nama18
- Tareekh-Goi27
- Translation75
- 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.
