The immigrant departing from his homeland is alike a soul leaving its body so for the rest of his life an immigrant is a corpse or a revenant returning to life to seek vengeance from the life.

— Tahira Aziz, Displacement - Partition Book

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Displacement - Partition Book

by Tahira Aziz

History · 140 pages

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Tahira Aziz

Tahira Aziz is a Pakistani writer, born in Lahore. With a distinguished academic career spanning over eight years as a lecturer and an MPhil in English Literature from University of the Punjab, whe…

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