Afzal Tauseef, Urdu And Punjabi Short Story Writer

Abstract

Afzal Tauseef is a prominent Urdu and Punjabi short story writer, columnist and writer who presented social issues in a realistic manner in her writings. The main themes of her writings are women's rights, social injustice, love, humanity and equality. She effectively described the atrocities, injustice and deprivation faced by women and presented them as a strong character.Her stories reflect the deprivations of poor and orphaned children, the infidelity of blood relations, poverty, hunger and human suffering. She has also made the Partition of India, martial law, military dictatorship, capitalist system, socialism and political injustices the subject of her criticism. Patriotism, resistance thought and human sympathy are prominent in her writings.Afzal Tauseef's style is simple, fluent and common sense. Curiosity, allusions, similes, symbolic style and effective narration are found in her stories, due to which her writings have a deep impact on the reader. Because of these literary qualities, she is considered an important and unique writer of Urdu and Punjabi literature