![]() ![]() In fact, I wonder if Jaan would have been a Muslim character had this story been written by a non-Muslim author. I am not sure if I would have read a normal, as-it-is description of a Muslim woman in a story written by a non-Muslim author. The communities Jaan and Jamini belong to, their identities, are never expressly shown in the story-it is something the reader understands while reading this story. From their names and other characters in the story, the reader comes to know that Jamini might be Hindu while Jaan might be Muslim. One woman is a poor, migrant labourer named Jamini, while the other is a privileged, well-to-do woman named Jaan. It is about two women who come from disparate backgrounds who, under certain circumstances, come to care for one another and there comes a time when they miss being around one another. ![]() ![]() In this book, there is a short story titled, Sisters. For example, early in 2018, I read Anjum Hasan's new book of short stories, A Day in the Life, and wrote a review of it. ![]()
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