Belles-Lettres

Hijab Imtiaz Ali Taj’s ‘Adab-E-Zareen’, an innovative mystical poetic
work, replete with symbology, philosophy, and metaphor, is translated
from the Urdu for the first time in book form by celebrated English
language poet Sascha A. Akhtar. Written in 1936 by this pioneering
feminist writer, who was also the first female muslim pilot of the
Subcontinent, this work soars to the skies leaving the reader breathless.
With this book, Hijab Imtiaz Ali Taj’s work gets a richer perspective,
eschewing traditional forms of storytelling of the time and embracing
the fragment and poetic prose.