All-India Progressive Writers Association

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All-India Progressive Writers Association

Indian literary organization

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Ahmed Ali
…became a founder of the All-India Progressive Writers Association (1936), which promoted innovation in Urdu literature. His influential short fiction—collected in such volumes as Sholay (1936; “The Flames”) and Hamari gali (1942; “Our Lane”)—is characterized by its sense of realism and social awareness and by its use of stream of…
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…became a founder of the All-India Progressive Writers Association (1936), which promoted innovation in Urdu literature. His influential short fiction—collected in such volumes as Sholay (1936; “The Flames”) and Hamari gali (1942; “Our Lane”)—is characterized by its sense of realism and social awareness and by its use of stream of…
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