Images

Facts! ♥️

In the opening paragraph of The Kite Runner, Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini’s narrator reflects on the past as an untamed beast that “claws its way out” at the most unexpected moments. With this familiar yet prosaic observation, the narrator invokes one of literature’s most enduring tropes.

Fiction writers often peel back the layers of their characters’ histories to make them more three-dimensional, realistic and intriguing. This technique opens a doorway into their hidden emotional lives and even allows them an opportunity to identify and address their traumas.

Poet, publisher and novelist Safinah Danish Elahi’s oeuvre also harbours a preoccupation with the past. However, her three novels don’t employ the motif in a clichéd manner, where scandalous revelations about characters overshadow their emotional and spiritual growth. Instead, turning the clock back to a bygone era serves as a clarion call, urging people to recognise their responsibilities to themselves and others.

Chasing Shadows in Borrowed Light is built on a similar template, insofar as it offers yet another captivating exploration of how the past seeps into the present. Like her previous fictional offerings, Elahi’s third novel places the turmoil of a troubled girl at its epicentre.

A quick glance at the back cover text promises a poignant tale about adolescent friendships that evolve as time, distance and dark secrets threaten old affinities. The plot is deceptively simple yet layered. Saira, Ashar, Usman and Areen once lived in Karachi, the city of their teenage triumphs, rebellions and emotional catastrophes. Now, three of them have fashioned new homes for themselves in Australia and the US, and inhabit different spheres largely detached from their roots. Nevertheless, their destinies remain inextricably linked to Karachi because of a secret that scars all of them, especially Areen.

Read Taha Kehar’s full review of the book, originally published in EOS, on Images - https://images.dawn.com/news/1195274/

British pop star Dua Lipa has filed a lawsuit against ‌Samsung Electronics seeking at least $15 million in damages, accusing the South Korean tech giant of using her image without permission to market its television sets.

The lawsuit alleges that Samsung featured a copyrighted ​image of the pop star on the front of cardboard boxes containing ​televisions for retail sale, enabling the company to benefit from what seemed ⁠like her endorsement of the product.

The image alleged to have been used ​on the TV boxes is titled “Dua Lipa — Backstage at Austin City Limits, 2024,“ and ​Lipa is the owner of all rights, title and interest in the image, the lawsuit said. The suit was filed on Friday in the California federal court.

Read more on Images - https://images.dawn.com/news/1195273/

Busy thinking about a Hasan Raheem - Arooj Aftab collab 🤩

Via