Ambica Gulati in Queen of Treasures:
The elder daughter of celebrated poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Salima Hashmi chronicles the many colourful dimensions of her life in these unputdownable books. Her life isn’t just a shadow of her iconic poet father or her firebrand mother, but an intersection of passion, peace, and humane values set against the cultural and historical turbulence of Pakistan. The memoirs are rich with stories of a purpose-driven intellectual amid the brutal Partition, Faiz’s exile, censorship, and resistance.
These pages taught me more about South Asia, art, peace, humanity, and the burden and nostalgia of shared roots than any history lesson I’ve read earlier. Like her famous father, Hashmi creates magic with words. But words carry weight, and she learned this early at home. As a woman donning many hats, raised to be her own person, she has the skills to add colour, shape, and form to the ideas that take root in creative individuals.
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