Waiting in the Wings : A memoir

Waiting in the Wings : A memoir March 1947. A four-year-old Salima Hashmi is witness to the Sikh leader, Master Tara Singh and his many followers denouncing the demand for Pakistan. Soon, the sub-continent is partitioned and Salima, her sister Moneeza, her English mother Alys, and her father, the renowned Urdu poet and leftist intellectual, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, are citizens of the nascent Pakistan. Life in the newly formed nation is full of ups and downs, the lowest points being Faiz’s imprisonment