Rukhsana Ahmad

Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry

We Sinful Women

The Gatekeeper's Wife and Other Stories

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Beyond Belief

Alt̤āf Fāt̤imah

Tells the story of the love between Gaythi and Safar and impact of social and economic status on their relationship.

(Dastak Naa Do)

The One who Did Not Ask

Winsome Pinnock

Meera Syal

Trish Cooke

Maya Chowdhry

Zindika

Comedy, poetry, history and magic combined with themes of a social and spiritual nature make this volume an exciting collection. Plays for stage, radio and television together with essays on theatre, writing workshops, oral traditions and Yvonne Brewster O.B.E. in dialogue.

Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers

Explores the incredible story of Annie Besant’s relationship with India and the boy who went on to become one of India’s greatest teachers and thinkers – Krishnamurti. 1916: India is simmering with discontent against the Raj. Enter English proto-feminist Annie Besant, notorious at home for the match-girls’ strike, political, charismatic. In India she finds a new family and a new cause. Gandhi hails her as the leader of the Congress Party after she courts imprisonment for promoting Indian Home Rule. She admires him – but can rulers ever befriend the ruled? Can Annie’s great love affair with India last? ... or is she mistaken in her beliefs, politics and adoptions? ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rukhsana Ahmad‘s stage plays include: Song For Sanctuary, The Gate-Keeper’s Wife, Black Shalwar, River On Fire (shortlist Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2002), The Man Who Refused to be God, Last Chance and Partners in Crime. Radio plays and adaptations include: Song for a Sanctuary (CRE award, runner-up), An Urnful of Ashes, The Errant Gene, Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman At Point Zero, Jean Rhy’s Wide Sargasso Sea (shortlist CRE and Writers’ Guild Award for best adaptation), R.K Narayan’s The Guide and Nadeem Aslam’s Maps For Lost Lovers. She also wrote for Westway and helped to create Pyaar Ka Passort for BBC World Service Trust. Her fiction includes a novel; The Hope Chest (Virago) and several short stories have been published internationally. Her translations from Urdu include We Sinful Women, and Altaf Fatima’s novel, The One Who Did Not Ask. Currently she is working on Letting Go, a new play for Pursued by a Bear, and an adaptation for the BBC of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

Mistaken... Annie Besant in India

In this novel, three women's lives touch, sometimes directly, sometimes tangentially. Ruth is unable to distinguish between her elaborate dreams and reality; Rani is caught up in her own fantasy; and Reshma only dares to hope that her reality has some profound meaning.

Rukhsana Ahmad

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