- Index of Books 180561
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Book Categories
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Activities89
Children's Literature1980
Drama917 Education342 Essays & Profiles1363 Fiction1581 Health104 History3263Humorous593 Journalism200 Language & Literature1625 Letters727
Life Style30 Medicine969 Movements267 Novel4269 Political350 Religions4762Research & Criticism6519Short-story2666 Sketches232 Social issues109 Sufism / Mystic2007Text Books423 Translation4190Women's writings5753-
Book Categories
- Bait Bazi14
- Catalogue / Index4
- Couplets68
- Deewan1248
- Doha49
- Epics100
- Exegesis181
- Geet63
- Ghazal1259
- Haiku11
- Hamd57
- Humorous31
- Intikhab1581
- Keh mukarni6
- Kulliyat571
- Mahiya20
- Majmua4872
- Marsiya387
- Masnavi737
- Musaddas44
- Naat588
- Nazm1200
- Others84
- Paheli14
- Qasida177
- Qawwali16
- Qit'a67
- Quatrain263
- Quintuple15
- Rekhti12
- Remainders16
- Salaam34
- Sehra12
- shahr-Ashob, Hajw, Zatal Nama17
- Tareekh-Goi25
- Translation74
- Wasokht24
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.
