Sultana Nahar

Sultana Nahar is an award-winning author, lawyer, and serial entrepreneur.

‘In Extreme Need of Guidance’: Afterword

'In Extreme Need of Guidance', the book being serialised here, captures the first 16 years of writer Sultana Nahar's life. This is the Afterword by the author.

11 August 2023, 11:55 AM

I would rather stop coming here

'In Extreme Need of Guidance', the book being serialised here, captures the first 16 years of writer Sultana Nahar's life. "A Bomb Falls" is the 10th chapter in the book.

4 July 2023, 06:00 AM

In Extreme Need of Guidance

On summer days when the sunlight falls through the trees it scatters into a play of light and shadows on the ground. My memories of Fareed are like that.

15 June 2023, 13:30 PM

For iftar during that month we were served milk with rosewater which I found quite delicious, and gulab jamun served as dessert. When some girls didn’t want or didn’t finish their portions they would give it to me and I would accept happily.

1 June 2023, 15:00 PM

‘Listen, don’t forget to send me to Lahore’

Once on the road I could see that Lahore was bigger than I had imagined. The trees were large and red dust, like that from the desert, billowed in wide avenues.

14 May 2023, 16:11 PM

Robbers, teachers and graveyards

'In Extreme Need of Guidance', the book being serialised here, captures the first 16 years of Sultana Nahar's life. "The Engineer" is the sixth chapter in the book.

30 April 2023, 15:00 PM

The life aquatic

I was an otter. I was an amphibian. Even at night I would be in the pond or the river.

9 April 2023, 12:45 PM

Cement Swans

On moonlit nights when the perfume of the roses thickened the air, I was in a trance, an ecstasy of body and mind. The beauty of the night has held an allure for me my whole life.

24 March 2023, 15:00 PM

Kalai rutis, tamarind trees, and childhood adventures

I hurt my left knee quite seriously but was too afraid of my father to tell anyone about it. I thought the fault was mine, as though my injury was some kind of crime. So for several days I wore long dresses and kept my knee hidden from everyone even as the wound became infected and the bone began to show.

6 March 2023, 14:33 PM

My father’s temper, moral conduct and my extended family

'In Extreme Need of Guidance', the book being serialised here, captures the first sixteen years of Sultana Nahar's life. "Mercolized Wax" is the second chapter in the book.

19 February 2023, 15:28 PM

‘It feels like a living thing’: The House on RK Mission Road

When I think of the thick limestone walls of the house now I think of the essence of the generations of our family that it has absorbed.

4 February 2023, 15:14 PM