Urdu Travelogues and Fiction

As it is believed that all the genres are somehow connected because they all belong to the same entity; man’s imagination which is the birthplace of all the artful & thoughtful ideas ever emerged in human history. This research paper encompasses the whole tradition of travelogues in Urdu literature and figures the elements of fiction in the very genre. The researcher suggests that the travelogue is the mother of all genres and the same core belief is what lays base on the thought-expedition while writing the paper. This is quite evident that travelogue-writer focuses on the facts and the actual details of every journey and utilize them while working on his draft and the same is the very creative strategy for writing fiction, that the fiction writers also get to the actual situations from the society, analyze objectively and then utilize them masterfully for the fictional sequence of the happenings in the story i.e. plot. This research paper helps the readers to envision the creative going on processes regarding fiction writing & travelogue writing both, understand them to an extensive extent and find the similarities which seemingly reflect the other like organic twins. In this regard, it is considered that the genres of travelogue & novel, both explained with meaningful examples and no ambiguity remains.