IANS Review: Nightbooks : An Insipid Fantasy-horror Tale (IANS Rating: **1/2)
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The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is our Scheherazade, an obsessive vendetta its existential challenge
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is our Scheherazade, wedded to its King Shahryar, who has vowed to eradicate corruption and deliver a Naya Pakistan. She must find a way around this predicament or else risk extermination.
Elected as the country’s prime minister in 2018, Imran Khan finally secured the job he had wanted and sought for a long time. Many analogies to cricket situations were invoked along the way and the people were promised a spectacular end to widespread corruption in Pakistan. Corruption, according to the PTI’s principal narrative, was the bane of Pakistan’s existence; the ultimate threat to good governance, social justice and economic prosperity. How has the chapter on delivering a corruption-free Naya Pakistan fared?
Storytelling gets us past tough situations
Shalini Verma Filed on May 3, 2021 | Last updated on May 3, 2021 at 12.35 am
This was in the late 70s, when we lived in a dusty mining town called Dhanbad in Eastern India.
When I was seven, my father would come home from work and read to me from the pages of King Solomon’s Mines. I couldn’t understand a word of it, but he painstakingly translated every sentence in Hindi. The book had no pictures. So, in his distinctive animated style, he brought Kukuanaland to life, even mimicking Captain Good with his chattering dentures. He took me to a book shop to buy my first book a beautiful picture book of bedtime stories. By then reading in English got easier. I read the fairy tales so many times that I knew them by heart. Stories had to be mastered before they were retold.