Alternative Realities by Nighat M. Gandhi

The Book Review x

February 2014
Alternative Realities by Nighat M. Gandhi

Safar was about the inner journey of the heart and mind that revealed the truth of one to oneself, and took one closer to that state known variously as enlightenment, self-realization, self-knowledge, satori, fana- ...My safar to places of my past led me to intimacy with myself. Revealed who I am to me. A caravan of memories and experiences carry Nighat M. Gandhi across three countries—India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Women and their love have been celebrated as well as pondered upon in this book. The definition of love is not restricted to that between a man and woman. Even though that definition occupies a space in the book, Nighat does not conform to a particular stereotype and projects such kind of love as creating a hole in one's heart...

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