Reflection Of Lucknow Culture And Society In Short Stories Of Nayer Masood

Abstract

Nayer Masood is not only one of the few important Persian intellectuals in the subcontinent, but he himself is the most modern Urdu fiction writer in this era. He was the son of Masood Hassan Rizvi Adeeb.                                                              

Lucknow is a city of arches. When we say arch, an entire civilization is summed up in this word. Nayer Masood said in an interview that "the atmosphere in which (my) fictions are set is the atmosphere of this city, and I am also attracted to this city, apart from the fact that it is my homeland. A strange city, still I am very fascinated by it and I have seen many spectacles here, [1]fall etc. When I was born (here), the society here had already declined, and after that there was even more decline in it. From the arch it seems to me that there is some personal strangeness that I find very imaginative. I will not call it a symbol, because a symbol is not a condemnation of something, but a greater state in it. Many stories are hidden in each arch. Nayer Masood was born in Lucknow, so he expresses the civilization, society and culture of this city in his stories. His collections of stories i.e. "Taos Chaman ki Meena", "Ganjfa", “Attar Kafoor”and “Semia” contains all aspects of Lucknow as well.