Presentation of Punjabi culture and tradition in Mustansar Hussain Tarar's Novel "Ae Ghazal-e-Shab"

Abstract

Mustansar Hussain Tarar's novel "Ae Ghazal-e-Shab" is a representative novel of Punjabi culture. Mustansar Hussain Tarar is considered one of the greatest novelists of Urdu literature of the present era.

Since Tarar Sahib was born in Punjab, he had a deep interest in Punjab. The people were very dear here and the atmosphere here was very impressive. Therefore, he incorporated the atmosphere of Lahore, the city of Punjab, in this novel.

Just as Meer Aman, in his story "Bagh-o-Bahar", has described the language of the city of Delhi and depicted the emotions and feelings, customs, habits and minds of the people living there, and has explained the beauty of the details of everything in the form of words. Similarly, Tarar Sahib has also beautifully depicted the atmosphere of Lahore in the form of the characters of the people there. In the present novel "Ae Ghazal-e-Shab", the complete civilization of the culture and civilization of Punjab has been reviewed.