Faisla
Musharraf Alam Zauqi
Introduced & translated by
Vatsal Rohilla
Banibrata Mahanta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16751276
This is the English translation of a short story written by Musharraf Alam Zauqi.
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Works cited
Zauqi, Musharraf Alam. Ek Anjāne Ḳhauf kī Rehearsal. Arshia Publications, 1995, pp. 335-39.
____. “Musharraf Alam Zauqi in conversation with Zamarrud Mughal at Rekhta Studio.” Youtube, uploaded by Rekhta, 20 June 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-o09581ug. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
Banibrata Mahanta is Professor of English at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. His recent publications include English Studies in India: Contemporary and Evolving Paradigms (Springer 2019, coedited with Rajesh Babu Sharma) and the forthcoming Evolving Perspectives in English Studies: Views from the Northeast and Beyond (with Anindya Syam Choudhury). His monograph Disability Studies: An Introduction (2017), along with the edited volume Narrative Universes of Disability: Global Perspectives (Springer 2025, with Someshwar Sati and Shilpa Das), offers significant critical insight into the field of disability studies. Beyond his academic work, Mahanta also conducts sensitization workshops across India on disability-based marginalization, engaging with issues within and outside academia. He translates from Bangla, Hindi, and Urdu into English. His acclaimed English translation of Kusum Khemani’s Lavanyadevi (Orient Blackswan, 2024) was awarded the prestigious PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant by PEN America in 2021.
Email: bmahanta@bhu.ac.in,
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9731-2809
Vatsal Rohilla is a Junior Research Fellow in the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is currently working on Anglo-American memoirs of acquired disability. His research interests include disability studies, life writing, and the Urdu ghazal and its poetics. His paper “The Return of/to Otherness: A Reading of James Baldwin’s “An Encounter on the Seine”, “A Question of Identity”, and “Equal in Paris”” was published in Sophia Luminous. Four of his ghazals have been published on rekhta.org.
Email: vatsalrohilla21@gmail.com
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1338-6577
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