Raja Gidh

Details

Title: Raja Gidh (راجه گدھ)
Author: Bano Qudsia
Language: Urdu
Genre: Novel

Plot

Hailing from an upper-middle-class family, Seemi Shah falls in love with her handsome classmate Aftab in the MA Sociology class at Government College Lahore.Seemi is a modern and attractive urban girl and attracts most of her male class fellows, including the narrator Qayyum and the young liberal professor Suhail. Aftab belongs to a Kashmiri business family. Although he also loves her, he cannot rise above his family values and succumbs to his parent's pressure to marry someone against his wishes and leave for London to look after his family business.
The novel then takes on touching several moral and ethical issues, beyond the love triangle plot, depicted through the rich culture and everyday life of Lahore.

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About Author

Native Name: Bano Qudsia بانو قدسیہ , Qudsia Chatthaقدسیہ چٹھہ
Born: 28 November 1928 Firozpur, Punjab, British India
Died: 4 February 2017 (aged 88) Lahore, Pakistan

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