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Urdu Ki Aakhri Kitab. Urdu Ki Aakhri Kitab (Urdu: اردو کی آخری کتاب) is a 1971 Urdu comic and satirical book by Ibn-e-Insha. It is a parody of Muhammad Hussain Azad 's textbook " Urdu Ki Pehli Kitab ". The Dawn newspaper included Urdu Ki Aakhri Kitab in its list of the best 100 Urdu books of all times.
[2] [3] News satire is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism, and called a satire because of its content. News satire is not to be confused with fake news that has the intent to mislead.
Hussain published several books and over 15 volumes of humor journalism, with many of them translated into Hindi, English and other languages. [3] Apne Yaad Mein, an autobiographical satire, Urdu ke sheher urdu ke log, [4] Behar hal, [5] Safar lakht lakht [6] and Mera Column [7] are some of his notable works.
In February 2014, Mohsin addressed the Karachi Literature Festival during a session for her book. [1] Digital book was released in 2011. [2] A quote from her 2014 speech at the Karachi Literature Festival: "Humour comes from tragedy while anger is what triggers satire. With satire, you speak the truth and hold a mirror up to the society." [1]
1955. " Toba Tek Singh " (Urdu: ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ ALA-LC: Ṭobah Țek Siṉgh IPA: [ʈoːbəh ʈeːk sɪŋɡʱ]) is a short story written by Saadat Hasan Manto and published in 1955. It follows inmates in a Lahore asylum, some of whom are to be transferred to India following the 1947 Partition. According to a personal essay hosted at ...
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).
The genre of Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, that is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals or entities. [1] It has been broadly described as a mixture of allegory, picaresque narrative, and satirical commentary. [2] Other features found in Menippean satire are different forms of ...
Being a satire, Rangila Rasul had a surface appearance of a lyrical and laudatory work on Muhammad and his teachings, while the marital life of the prophet is treated in a praising tone, in the style of a bhakti [29] (that is, a show of devotion to a god or saint in the Hindu tradition), and some of the controversial points of the book are in ...