A Letter from India (Partition Short Story by Intizar Hussain) Summary
A Letter from India by Intizar Hussain Intizar Hussain was a famous Urdu poet short story writer and novelist he was born in 1925 in Dibai (India). A letter from India as a short story about the partition of India that took place in 1947 and deals with the loss of family heritage associated with it. The short story is written in the form of a lette r. The letter is written by Kurban Ali, an orthodox Shia Muslim who had seen better days during the British rule. The letter is addressed to his brother’s son Kamaran, who lives in Karachi. The letter begins with general salutations and And Kurban claims to have reached out to Kamaran, but failed because of lack of communication. The narration gradually moves to the violence associated with the partition in 1947. He talks about Imran Miyan who had visited him long time back in a very bad state. He could not speak a...