Read an excerpt from award winning Urdu author Khadija Mastur’s book A Promised Land.

Set in the 1940s, with Partition looming on the horizon, The Women’s Courtyard  brings into focus the claustrophobic lives of women whose entire existence was circumscribed by the four walls of their homes, and for whom the outside world remained an inaccessible dream. An excerpt: At night, Aliya would demand that the cook, Khansaman Bua, tell […]