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Farrukhi’s story ‘Shaitaan Ka Charka’ speaks of a constantly transforming world, with inventions such as the television
An understatement: time flies. Only a year ago, on June 1, 2020 to be precise, Dr Asif Farrukhi the renowned writer, translator, publisher and one of the founding members of the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) died of a heart attack in Karachi.
At the time, the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic had not completely subsided. A year later, while we are in the midst of its third and arguably more lethal wave, avid readers of Urdu literature in particular, and world literature in general, have not yet come to terms with Farrukhi’s passing. His absence from the literary world is conspicuous; to a certain extent, painful.
In Urdu, the genre of khaaka nigari [sketch writing] has evolved its own distinct style when we compare it to what is called biographical essays in English. The names of Mirza Farhatullah Baig, Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto merit a mention at the outset. Maulvi Abdul Haq’s contribution to this genre through his collection Chund Hum Asr [A Few Contemporaries], first published in 1950 is important because he wrote about those who remained invisible to the eyes of the affluent and educated.
Since the middle of the 20th century, we have seen many such writings appear in newspapers, magazines and collections, with both serious personality sketches as well as caricatures in prose that humour a person or their work. Some important names in Pakistan that come to my mind immediately include Dr Aftab Ahmed, Ahmad Bashir, Sahab Qizilbash, Dr Aslam Farrukhi and Mushfiq Khawaja. There are some sketches which can also fall in the categories of pure satire and humour writing. However