ISLAMABAD, June 9: A reception was arranged at Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) on Friday in honour of two eminent Indian writers, Prof Sharib Rudolvi and Dr Shameem Nikhat, who are currently touring Pakistan.

The literati of the twin cities attended the reception in large numbers. National Language Authority Chairman Prof Fateh Mohammad Malik as well as PAL Chairman Iftikhar Arif extended a profound welcome to the Indian guests.

Mr Arif said Prof Sharib was a writer of most potent Urdu critical essays.

Prof Rudolvi discussed the concept of post modernism, commenting that the idea was new to Urdu literature, though it had been the subject of study in English since over half a century.

He said it was natural that criticism took influences from the ongoing streams of literary discussions. Every age creates standards of literary criticism, he added.

“We have to keep abreast of the evolving patterns of literary discourses as they came up in the West. If Urdu literature measures to those standards then we should expect the language to encompass as a vehicle of contemporary thoughts and measures of beautiful writing.”

Urdu writers and readers should accept new changes in a positive manner and without prejudice, he observed.