Can writing be defined by national, religious, linguistic, and ethnical borders? An excerpt from Ways of Being in Scroll https://t.co/jPu9LBJYMX @SabynJaveri@adibish
Who you are is no longer a question of ‘where you are from’; rather,who you are is more accurately represented by ‘what you stand for’. Ways of Being:Creative Non-Fiction by Pakistani Women https://t.co/4QYQrbRmRN @SabynJaveri@shahnazrouse@KhiIsbLitFests@beenasarwar@tammyhaq
The pleas of the women of Joshimath bring tears to our eyes. Imagine for a moment, the houses we live in, the lives we have led, being pulled away from under our feet...
1/3 15 of the most articulate & creative non-fiction writers from Pakistan eloquently demonstrate,as Sabyn Javeri says,“Who you are is more accurately represented by what you stand for, than by where you are from.”
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Ways of Being -- new anthology of Pakistani women's writing edited by @SabynJaveri and featuring writing from @sadiakhatri1 @kamilashamsie Uzma Aslam Khan @SoniahKamal and many more. From @unlimited_women and coming soon!
Mytheli Sreenivas’s wonderfully important book follows arguments about population from the late 19th century to the post-Emergency years in India. Strong and pungent... a pleasure to read. — The Book Review https://t.co/IzOwOYOhkM @ProfMytheli
Ismat Chughtai: “Those whose bodies were whole had hearts that were splintered...in the end many souls remained behind in Hindustan while their bodies started off for Pakistan.” India @75 No Woman’ Land https://t.co/99fkfC0OfP @dillivali @aziakashmir
The concerns raised by her over 100 years ago, still stand true. Issues of education for women, literacy, safe motherhood, safe contraception, are still as relevant. A woman for all seasons, Rashid continues to inspire and provoke.
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Scripting Bollywood is packed with rich film history, insightful conversations, observations on the craft of screenwriting, delicious anecdotes, some of which are also funny, big bonus for me. —Meenakshi Shinde, Mid-Day https://t.co/zyf3zqRvhA @MeenakshiShinde@anubhayadava
The youngest in a large but indifferent family, Shaman is a lonely child who convinces herself that she is unlovable. The Crooked Line is her journey into adulthood, her unfulfilled sexual and romantic passions https://t.co/3Vjv8Ptx1m @tahirahussainn1
This passionate, searing novel has torque after torque of perception and dream, revealing the growth of a woman, her desire, her rage, her sexual longing. Chughtai has given us a masterpiece.—Meena Alexander https://t.co/3Vjv8Ptx1m
Side Effects of Living presents the words and verses of survivors, writers, poets and artists, who are struggling with a mental condition or have watched their loved ones suffer. Through first-person life experiences https://t.co/UM8Hch2r3M
The Kashmir Files moved you; got you thinking? Then open another window to the Valley, listen to some real voices of real women, Pandit and Muslim, as they write about militarism, militarisation, livelihood, resistance... Can you Hear Kashmiri Women Speak? https://t.co/Md6UWiFkdD
Saleem Kidwai’s translation of Hyder’s 1952 classic tells the story of the Partition from the point of view of the elite of the time. A coming-of-age story of six friends whose dreams are cut short when Partition corners them. Get it at FLAT 25% off on https://t.co/Md6UWinaZv
Hyder wrote this tale of love and loss, of people and land, a few years before the Babri Masjid was razed to the ground in Ayodhya in 1992, almost predicting the future course of events—Hindustan Times Get it at FLAT 25% off on https://t.co/Md6UWinaZv @tahirahussainn1