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On the evening of 5th January 2006, Bant Singh, a Dalit agrarian labourer and activist in Punjab’s Jhabar village, was ambushed and brutally beaten by upper-caste Jat men armed with iron rods and axes. He lost both his arms and a leg in the attack. It was punishment for having fought for justice for his minor daughter who had been gang-raped. But his spirit was not broken, and he continues to fight for equality and dignity for millions like him, inspiring ...
Half the Sky encases some of the best fiction written by women writers of Pakistan , a country that is only some fifty-seven years young, have not lagged behind as far as literature goes. In this volume one sees the versatility with which women writers have handled the dexterous task of penning short fiction. These are stories by women who have had the courage to break the silence of the centuries and tell their won stories in their own words.In fact this volume ...
The brief and turbulent history of Pakistan has seen pygmies in uniform trumpeted in as saviours of the people all too often. The people of the country that is just fifty-seven years young were subjected to martial law from 1958 to 1988 and these were times when the military rulers willfully demolished all the institutions and popular notions of democracy. The imposition of martial law in 1977 emergence of Zia-ul-Haq as dictator and the execution of Prime ...