Last week Qaisra visited Gulberg Government College for Women.
In the session entitled ‘ Building cultural bridges through Literature’ I talked on various topics, my novels.the distraction by social media on my writing life. women’s rights, feminism, respecting other faiths and cultures and giving lots of examples how I ‘Got out of my box’, our favourite books, Middlemarch, Anna kareinina, reading from my book ‘The Concubine & The Slave Catcher’ & Typhoon. Discussed my female characters, my research – interviewing over 100 Muslim women from around the world- describing my findings ie all women interviewed in Indonesia had love marriages and many rode motor bikes- and so on.”
“My last day in Lahore – it’s been quite a wonderful trip – family tours as well as literary tours. Thank you to all my lovely hosts and staff and teachers at the 2 colleges/universities I visited this week, for making a memorable trip for me!
Thank you all for helping me to promote message of peace of spreading sweetness and saying no to hate with your students and staff
It was also a huge pleasure to meet the young woman who had written a thesis on my work , Abida Tariq.”
