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Modernism in literature does not mean severing ties with the past. Rather, it is about giving the finest intellectual treasures of the past a new prose format that aligns with the changing social and mental demands of our own era.

— Shamsur Rahman Farooqi

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The true triumph of criticism lies in evaluating a writer’s prose within its own linguistic and cultural era, rather than forcefully imposing the manufactured theories of our own time upon it.

Urdu prose possesses an extraordinary flexibility and intellectual depth capable of absorbing the world's most complex philosophical and scientific ideas. We only need to have faith in its expansiveness.

Lexicography and the study of the history of words are, in reality, the study of a nation's cultural history. Words are not merely clusters of sounds; they hold within themselves the travelogue of a centuries-old civilizational journey.

Among my contemporaries and near-contemporaries, I have always preferred those for whom literature is not a game of conspiracies, but a reality that transcends life itself. If this is termed "groupism," then I consider myself fortunate to be a member of such a group.

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