Devta

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This article is about the fantasy story. For the unrelated film starring Vyjayanthimala, see Devta (film).

Devta is a serialized fantasy novel written in the Urdu language by Mohiuddin Nawab. It was published monthly for 33 years in the Pakistani magazine Suspense Digest. Devta is the fictional autobiography of Farhad Ali Taimoor, a man who gained amazing telepathic powers.

The author Mohiuddin Nawab, a well-known social story writer of Pakistan, has written more than 500 stories, both short stories and novel-length, mostly published in Suspense Digest, a monthly magazine published in Karachi and available in Pakistan, India, and various parts of the world where Urdu is spoken. He has also written screenplays for film and television.

Devta is one of the longest continuously-published stories on record. It was started in February, 1977 and appeared every month in Suspense Digest, with its concluding chapter published in January 2010.

Records

Devta has 11,206,310 words as compared to 2,070,000 words of Les Hommes de bonne volonté (Men of Good Will) by Louis Henri Jean Farigoule alias Jules Romains, of France.

Devta has 49 volumes published and volume nos. 50 through 53 under print as compared to 40 volumes of the novel Tokugawa Ieyasu by Sohachi Yamaoka.

Devta has 22,412,620 characters as compared to 9,609,000 characters of A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust.

References

    • Nawab, Mohi-ud-Din (2008-08-22). "Devta by Mohi-Ud-Din" (Paper). Katabiat Publications (in 53 Volumes). Retrieved 2008-08-22. 


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