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Translations

Safia Siddiqi - Community Leader

First page of the short story Community Leader by Safia Siddiqi

Community Leader

This short story by Safia Siddiqi was published in 1990 in the collection Phelee Nasal Ka Gunah, [The sins of the first generation]. You can listen to the Urdu here:

Community Leader read by Shams Rehman

Cover of the book, Golden Cage

Translation One

In 2002, Safia Siddiqi edits of a collection of Urdu short stories written by South Asian women in Britain. This book The Golden Cage, includes her own translation of Community Leader.

See a sample of the translation.

Translation Two

In 2015, the online version of Himal Magazine published another translation of the story, by Alison Shaw and Mohammad Talib. This was a web only compliment to the print quarterly on Dispora: South Asia Abroad.

Read the full translation.