

Sang-e-Meel in Lower Mall stocks mostly Urdu books, but I pick up Indian Muslim Students in Cambridge by KK Aziz. Sunsilk’s sponsorship, via its owners, Unilever, seems entirely appropriate - Pakistani women, like Indians, have long hair that always looks glossy and freshly Sunsilked.īeing Bengali and pretentious, I ask to be taken to a couple of bookshops even though, like everyone else, I want to go shopping really. Zarmina is in charge of product development for Latitude, the PR company looking after foreign journalists covering Pakistan Fashion Development Council’s Sunsilk Fashion Week in Pakistan. Zarmina Durrani and I agree that maybe we should have a different kind of contest - pitch the 10 most beautiful women in Pakistan against the 10 most beautiful women in India and allow Khushwant Singh to be the sole judge of the winning team.


Perhaps, just for a little while, we ought to set India-Pakistan cricket to one side, for such encounters unleash exaggerated passions on both sides of the border. Zarmina Durrani, sister of Tehmina Durrani, author of My Feudal Lord In Pakistan, Amit Roy Says It As He Sees It: From A Beauty Battle On Both Sides Of The Border To The City That Never Sleeps
