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I maintain that, even today, when there are more of us producing literature in English, the best literary talent in Pakistan is still manifested through our native languages Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto and others. Barring some truly exceptional writers who have made a name for themselves nationally and internationally Bapsi Sidhwa, Jamil Ahmed, Uzma Aslam Khan, Nadeem Aslam, Mohammed Hanif, Kamila Shamsie, H.M. Naqvi and Bina Shah the bulk of our creative writing in English, until the recent past, gave an impression of being contrived, affected, borrowed and superficial.
Our writers find it easier to convey thoughts and ideas in their prose, but struggle when the feelings and emotions of narrators, subjects or protagonists are to be expressed. One also feels that the amount of serious non-fiction, essays and papers that we produce remains low.
How the coronavirus pandemic has upended the traditional Indian wedding
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Ridhi Shah, centre, and her family had found an auspicious date for the wedding, but the pandemic threatened their plans.
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Ridhi Shah s wedding was nothing like she expected.
For one, the Mumbai resident organised her three-day shaadi all by herself to minimise her contact with family and friends, even decorating her own hands with elaborate mehndi designs to mark the start of the ceremony.
Instead of the groom circling the sacred fire by her side an important rite of a Hindu marriage ceremony he was beamed in from Sydney onto Ridhi s computer screen via the video conferencing platform Zoom.