Pakistan, March 26 -- After half a century of its publication, Abdullah Hussain's novel Udaas Naslain still attracts the attention of critics and readers alike.

This novel, along with Quratulain Haider's novel Aag Ka Darya, has reverberated through the annals of Urdu literary scene for decades. Since no other great Urdu novels displaced them from their enviable position on top of the post-partition literature, the two novels continued to leave a distinct impression on the reading public in Pakistan and abroad.

Aag Ka Darya remained the darling of Indian and Pakistani critics, analysts, commentators and historians of Urdu literature because of its immense civilisational expanse that was spread over the past two and half thousand years. S...