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My Feudal Lord

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There is politics involved, whch shouldn't come as a surprise because she married a politician, afterall. Mustafa was not a good father, thats admitted and he was cruel but later on she got hold on her children.

In the writing of My Feudal Lord, Tehmina Durrani worked with William Hoffer, author of Midnight Express and co-author of Betty Mahmoody's Not Without My Daughter.While they were both married when they met, Mustafa Khar manipulated the situation enough to ensure Tehmina's divorce. Still, if only for her horrible experiences, I was inclined towards giving this book a 3-star rating. This book is great if you are interested in Pakistani politics otherwise give it a miss, it really isn't worth it. Her at last was someone who had succeeding in reconciling her faith in Islam with her ardent belief in women's rights. He knew that he had imprisoned me in loneliness, and now, he believed, God had punished him with imprisonment while I was free.

Which was why I read the whole thing with a grain of salt, paying special attention not to the events that happened but also how they are presented. The influence of Edhi spurred her into social work and inspired her to establish the 'Tehmina Durrani Foundation', with a mission to further Edhi's way of "humanitarianism", and his vision of Pakistan as a social welfare state.One who has been restricted by the community’s concepts of modesty must understand why another would want to break out of them. Most of the people who read this book state pretty much the same thing: that they loved it when they read it, but now that Tehmina Durrani has married Shahbaz Sharif, they can’t believe she would marry into the same social circles, and that she probably deserves any more shit she gets, for choosing to marry such a corrupt man. I already knew he would be horrible, but I had underestimated, even by my own very generous standards, how horrible he could possibly be. Examples like these abound, and though there are moments you want to feel sympathy for her, since she does seem to have faced many psychological traumas, her increasing self-righteousness towards the end of the book confirms that she is nothing greater than a hypocritical self-promoter, like many of her class. Her rebellious nature also cost her losing all financial support from her ex-husband, as well as the custody of her children.

Biased or not, history is always more interesting when reading from the point of the view of the figures involved, rather than from a dry, date-by-date account that our course books usually espouse. The author left her first husband to marry him,and the way she describes it,found herself in a living nightmare.

And no reader of history, especially in the form of a biography, should be naïve enough to assume that what they are reading is, in fact, what actually happened. It turned out to be a surprisingly interesting read both in terms of narrative technique and content.

She believed her mothers and sisters were conspiring against her all her life but she had no evidence. Tehmina's story, adapted now for western readers, provides extraordinary insights into the vulnerable position of women caught in the complex web of Muslim society.The political infidelity, the mere play of words and melodrama are already the sad realities of our country's political situations, but for men that identify with such duplicity, hypocrisy and instability to have rule and power adds to the readers' disappointment.

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