g, the European Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, democratic values in family as well as in public life and above all, the cross-currents of philosophical writings. Basudeb profiles the new woman of Pakistan, in the special feature on International Women’s Day, exclusively in Different Truths.įrom the dawn of the modern civilisation, patriarchy continues to preside over the society. The west experiences a number of revolutionising and epoch-making events of far-reaching importance, e. Tehmina in her first two novels, Blasphemy and My Feudal Lord champions women’s empowerment both in private and civic life.
Tehmina’s last biographical novel on the life of Abdul Sattar Edhi is A Mirror to the Blind. This novel won Italy’s Marissa Bellasario prize. Her second novel My Feudal Lord exposes the miserable position of a woman pitted against the patriarchal background of Muslim society in Pakistan. We will then contact you with the appropriate action.Tehmina Durrani arrests worldwide attention immediately after the publication of her first novel Blasphemy.
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Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. When Tehmina decided to rebel, the price she paid was extremely high. For the course of the fourteen-year marriage, she suffered alone, in silence. Mustafa Khar became violently possessive and pathologically jealous, and succeeded in cutting his wife off from the outside world. In private, however, the story-book romance of the most talked-about couple in Pakistan rapidly turned sour. When she married Mustafa Khar, one of Pakistan's most eminent political figures, she continued to move in the best circles, and learned to keep up the public fa ade as a glamorous, cultivated wife, and mother of four children. Like all women of her rank, she was expected to marry a prosperous Muslim from a respectable family, bear him many children, and lead a sheltered life of air-conditioned leisure. Born into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society, and educated at the same school as Benazir Bhutto. "When a woman with brains and beauty from a wealthy background decides to take her fate into her own hands and challenge the restrictions of a male-oriented, conservative society, the consequences can be devastating.