Ghulam Abbas (1909 -1982) is considered to be one of the 3 pillars of the grand tradition of Urdu short story writing, together with Manto & Rajinder Singh Bedi. In 1962, Hindi novelist Upendranath Ashka, published one of Ghulam Abbas' story vansh-vriksha वंश-वृक्ष .1/3

Some 10 years ago, when I read this satirical story titled वंश-वृक्ष (= family tree), I was amazed by the writing of Ghulam Abbas, for not only he was able to make me smile, but also left a keen portrait of a dynamic life of a Muslim family in India over the centuries. 2/3

Written in the form of mini biographies if characters, the short story is enthralling. If you are interested, you can read this story in Devanagari here - 3/3
https://archive.org/details/ghulam-abbas-vansh-vriksha-urdu-short-story

Read other stories of Ghulam Abbas here on Rekhta https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ghulam-abbas/stories?lang=hi

https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ghulam-abbas/stories?lang=hi