Tuesday, 07 July 2009

• Please buy Ali's novel The Wish Maker

  Have so far read my former boss and my human rights lawyer aunt in it. Seeing a few other familiar characters as well. The story takes us through Pakistan's history since Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's deposition up to the present, and shows us Pakistan through the eyes of middle-class women.
  
  "Sethi's narration is engaging and funny, and although it rambles off into distracted corners at times, it is slickly structured. It takes us from the present day, back across personal and political histories, and returns to a bittersweet ending which reminds us of the power of making wishes and the miracle of having them, even in part, fulfilled."
  - The Independent
  
  

  Who is Ali Sethi?
   
  Quick and dirty profile
  
  

  A passage that made me smile:
  
  'But the pictures from the protest were printed in the newspaper. And Zakia was in the enlarged picture: she stood on the side of the street and held a stick in her hand, which was held on the other end by a policewoman'.
  - The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
  
  I'm pretty sure that I was the first and last person to publish this photograph in a newspaper. I borrowed it from an old activist:
  
  
  

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  ------- takes on a police woman, 12 February, 1983
  
  

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