Source: 3 Quarks Daily
Yasmin Hai is an acclaimed journalist who has worked on BBC2’s Newsnight and Channel 4 documentaries. In a wonderfully honest new book, she describes the challenges of growing up as the daughter of Pakistani parents - and a father who yearned for her to be accepted as English.
Grasping the door […]
But what WOULD my Pakistani father say?
May 17th, 2008 Aimon · No Comments
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John Travolta ruined my life! Memories of growing up in Britain by a girl with Pakistani parents
March 27th, 2008 Aimon · 2 Comments
Source: Daily Mail
She loved Punch & Judy and Enid Blyton, but her parents came from Pakistan and her mother wore a sari. In an enchanting yet painfully honest new book, acclaimed TV journalist Yasmin Hai describes her childhood battle to ‘learn to be English’ - as her devoted father wanted - and the price she […]
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