The young and gorgeous writer belonging from the Pakistan named as Sheba Karim.She live in Delhi from last one and a half year.She said that it is one of the most modern city for women.In which she fulfilled her dreams.
"Delhi is one of the most modern cities in the subcontinent for women. You can come to Delhi any time; you can get into an auto-rickshaw and move. In Pakistan, you don`t have the freedom of movement. I am not comfortable moving around in Pakistan alone. It is easy here," Karim told reporters.
"Boys become appealing and you see your American friends dating. But your family says you can`t date and cannot talk to boys. Having a different skin colour is another problem and small things like dealing with excess body hair...," Karim said.
"When you speak of emancipation for South Asian women in the US, the situation is very different for Pakistani women. Pakistani families are very strict because they live in a certain kind of society. A woman has to fight her community and the family at a more micro-level if she chooses to lead her own life in the US. The family is more worried about what the community will say if they send a daughter away to college. But that girl does not have to fight the world. In Pakistan, a woman has to fight the world (the larger society)," Karim said.
"However, since the decade of the 1990s, the number of books looking into the lives of South Asian young adults has grown - though compared to other genres not that many. Young adults as a segment of readers is very important," Karim said.
Many here may beg to differ, but young Pakistani American writer Sheba Karim, who has made the Indian capital her home for one-and-a-half years, says it is one of the most modern cities in the subcontinent for women.
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