‘Critical Realisms’ in Savera: Mapping an Evolution of Urdu Literary Writing in Post-Partition India

Presented by

Areej Akhtar Sana Farrukh Javaria Ahmad

8 May 2023

“Radical changes are taking place in Indian society…We believe that the new literature of India must deal with the basic problems of our existence to-day– the problems of hunger and poverty, social backwardness, and political subjection. All that drags us down to passivity, inaction and un-reason we reject as reactionary. All that arouses in us […]

Series: Radical History Review Series: The Revolutionary Papers Classroom

Savera

Presented By

Areej Akhtar Sana Farrukh Javaria Ahmad

Time Period

1946

Languages

Urdu

Continents

Asia

Themes

Anticolonialism Critical Realism progressive literature

Savera, a left-wing literary magazine published quarterly in Lahore, Pakistan from 1946 … read more

Areej Akhtar

Areej Akhtar participated in the Revolutionary Papers Classroom and co-authored a teaching tool on Savera (Forthcoming, 2024). Savera was a 1940s literary periodical published in Lahore by associates of the anticolonial Progressive Writers’ Movement. She is a Senior at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), majoring in English Literature and minoring in Religion. Her undergraduate […]

Sana Farrukh

Sana Farrukh participated in the Revolutionary Papers Classroom and co-authored a tool on Savera, a 1940s literary periodical published in Lahore by associates of the anticolonial Progressive Writers’ Movement. She is a student of political science at LUMS University, Pakistan.

Javaria Ahmad

Javaria Ahmad participated in the Revolutionary Papers Classroom and co-authored a teaching tool on Savera (Forthcoming, 2024). Savera was a 1940s literary periodical published in Lahore by associates of the anticolonial Progressive Writers’ Movement. She is majoring in Anthropology and Sociology at LUMS University, Pakistan. Her fields of interest include qualitative research, gender and sexuality, […]