ROOS AIK JAADUI SAR-ZAMEEN

The most impressive aspect of the travelogue is when the author visits the house where Fyodor Dostoevsky and his wife Anna lived. The way she has written about this meeting shows the author’s boundless love for the novelist. I read this book with great interest and was impressed.

Intizar Hussain

Salma saw and wrote the scene of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the story of the overthrow of Lenin’s statue, the stories of the hostility and friendship of the divided people, not as a historian but as a mature intellectual. I saw the Soviet Union 40 years ago today. But Salma Awan showed me post-revolutionary Russia.

Kishore Naheed

Salma keeps showing history, literature, painting and past times in the mirror of her writing and we are immersed in the flavor and color of her charming style of expression. She talks about the period in Russia when the Russian Empire was gradually becoming Muslim. She talks about St. Petersburg with such a warmth that it is a pleasure to read.

Zahida Hina

Look at Salma Awan’s fiction, look at her travelogues. She is not just a travelogue. She is a very focused and thoughtful writer in a clear direction. I have found a focused point of view in all her travelogues, whether they are about Pakistan, the Middle East, Russia, Spain or other such places. She is a very politically aware and clear-sighted writer.