Ebrahim Taghavi

Umair Vahidy says

oh no not at all, I'm living in Lahore and disputes are going on in Swat and its surrounding areas. Things are coming to normality again as we're hearing news about IDPs returning their homes but that area has brutality wrecked. It's strange we used to call Swat a paradise on Earth and now it's a living hell, a terrific mess.

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Umair Vahidy says

Salam Ebrahim!!!
I'm doing great. Yeah it really makes me sad whenever I heard some terrible news from Iran. Nobody was expecting such a violence. Well news are just constantly bugging. You tell me what you think about all that???
Well you wrote a review about “The Catcher in the Rye” I am also interested in that novel, tell me about it, did you like it? I’m trying to read two novels consecutively “Things fall apart” and “Heart of Darkness” but can’t find enough time to start them. Have you read any of them?
So what's going on in your life nowadays?

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Umair Vahidy says

Hello there!
well exams were pretty fine..... I am an accounting student,,,, you know it's like weird stuff:),,,, from your last post I guess you must be a student of literature???? You have a great knowledge.
Well you are right that the western literature has a great background. But why you consider only realistic literature as literature. Others might irrelevant but still are the work of imagination and creativity. Do you have the same fairy tales about jinns and like beings in Persian like we have in Urdu??? I think they were important for the evolution of literature. But you're still right if you also include that era we still cannot compete with the languages having a background of 400 years.
Your modern and post modern list is great. I'll surely consult from it. Have you read Camus? I have read his two novels and he wrote superb. I think he surely deserves a status in modern list.
Take care!

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Umair Vahidy says

Salam Ebrahim Jan!
Sorry I couldn't write you earlier, exams were going, just get over,,,,,,,
Well I've now caught Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky is really a brilliant prose writer, I found the story interesting from the begining, the only problem is that you have to struggle a lot for the charachters' names, but it's a common thing in russian literature :)
What are you reading nowadays?
what you think about modern persian literature, same is I think about the contemporary Urdu literature. I don't know whether it's a part of our overall deterioration or we're getting short of creativity,,,,, modern literature has no such charm like classics do. What do you think?

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Umair Vahidy says

Well I love to but I'm still not very good at persian, If you'll talk in Persian then I can only say that:
Zuban-e-yar man turki, waman turki nami daanam :)
After exams I'm planning to read Brothers Karamazov, have you read that novel??? That would be my third book by Dostoevsky.
I've also read BOF KAUR by Sadiq Hedayat. That was really a breathtaking experience. Sadeq Hedayat must be a renowned writer in Iran??? Shazdaah Ehtejaab by Hoshing Gleshari is on my next reading list. Recently while reading a short stories anthology I also get to know some very good Iranian writers like Ismail Fasseh and Baba Muqqaddam. I want to explore Iranian literature more but the problem is the translated material is very less in no.
So you tell me what’re you’re favorites from Iranian literature.

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Umair Vahidy says

Salam Ebrahim jan!
I'm from Pakistan because of mu Urdu background I can guess some of the words of Persian. I'm also trying to learn that language. I try to read poetry of Allama Iqbal in Persian. It's such a surprise to me that how many words Urdu borrowed from Persian.

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