Andaleeb Wajid, a young Bangalore-based, hijab-wearing young woman, who has written over 40 novels in genres ranging from young adult and romance to horror, often raises eyebrows because her overtly Muslim identity is seen to be in contradiction with her choice of the genre derisively termed as ‘chick lit’. Is a hijab-clad Muslim woman reading and writing romances an anomaly? Actually, not! And those familiar with the tradition of women writing in Urdu, for instance, novels by authors like Hijab Imtiyaz Ali or Sughra Humayun Mirza or short fictions published in women’s magazines and periodicals,
In Pursuit of Happiness
Nishat Zaidi
ONE WAY TO LOVE by All three by Andaleeb Wajid Westland Publications, Jasmine Villa Series, , 276 pp., INR 399.00
LOVING YOU TWICEby Westland Publications, Jasmine Villa Series, , 296 pp., INR 399.00
THREE TIMES LUCKYby Westland Publications, Jasmine Villa Series, , 290 pp., INR 399.00