5/24/2023 0 Comments Nisha from the night diary![]() ![]() Nisha and her brother both attend segregated government schools for boys and girls. The compound consists of their home which is a large bungalow, cottages where Kazi Syed and their grounds keeper Mahit live, a vegetable garden and a chicken coop. Nisha and Amil live with their papa who is the head doctor at Mirpur Khas City Hospital, and Dadi their grandmother in a large compound provided by the government. ![]() The book contains beautiful coloured pictures, which Nisha knows Amil will love as he loves to draw but struggles to read. For his birthday, Amil receives a beautiful book, a collection of tales from the Mahabharata, an ancient Hindu epic poem. He tells Nisha "someone needs to make a record of the things that will happen because the grown-ups will be too busy." Nisha decides to address each entry to her mother Faria who died giving birth to Nisha and her twin brother Amil. ![]() The paper is rough, thick, and the color of butter." "The diary is covered in purple and red silk, decorated with small sequins and bits of mirrored glass sewn in. Nisha receives the diary as birthday gift from Kazi, the family's Muslim servant. The story is told in the form of diary entries written by the main character, Nisha beginning on her twelfth birthday, addresses to her deceased mother. The Night Diary is a fictional account of one family's experience during the partition of India into two countries in 1947. ![]()
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