Birds in Flight
“Birds in Flight” by Rashmi Govind, published by Penguin Books India PVT, Limited on August 19, 2025, is a collection of afsanche, or flash fiction, that showcases the artistry of Joginder Paul. This edition, comprising 216 pages, invites readers to explore the profound wisdom and hidden truths encapsulated in these micro stories. Each piece serves as a slice of life, transformed into a gem of creativity, allowing for a unique engagement with the text.
Readers will find that these short shorts not only reflect the author’s vision but also encourage creative participation, making them as much the reader’s experience as the author’s. The collection emphasizes the autonomy of each story, presenting them as moments to be felt rather than traditional narratives to be read. With themes of humor and satire woven throughout, “Birds in Flight” offers a distinctive exploration of life’s fleeting moments through the lens of microfiction.
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Come, sit on these pages awhile to admire, ponder over, and sometimes get lost in the profound wisdom and hidden truths of these fleeting creations that Joginder Paul offers.
Bird in Flight, a volume of afsanche (flash fiction) by Paul, brings to you another facet of his artistry. These micro stories are slices of life that have been transmuted into sparkling gems of creativity. With such constraint on the use of words and so much abandon in meaning making, the reader is sure to feel the expanse of the artist’s vision captured consummately within the confines of the brevity of the microfiction form.
Though known for his short stories and novels, Joginder Paul has been a pioneer of the afsanche form in Urdu literary writing. These short shorts are as much the reader’s as they are the author’s, and the translator’s, because they invite creative participation. And yet they have an autonomy that makes them experiences to be felt rather than narratives to be read–such is the genius of Paul’s musings.
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