Representing misdirected resistance

Our critics have often lamented the absence of Urdu novels from the library shelves of world literature. There is no denying the fact that Urdu novels have not yet made it to those coveted shelves. As a ray of hope, however, the biggest literary crop we harvested in this country in the last decade was the Urdu novel. However, the remarkable increase in the number of Urdu novels that have been published is still not a guarantee that these novels will take off.