An evening with Mishal Husain – by Kismet Café
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KISMET is proud to present an intimate evening with Mishal Husain, renowned broadcaster and author, as she discusses her compelling new book, Broken Threads.
Hosted by Emb Hashmi, award-winning BBC journalist, this special event will take you behind the pages of Broken Threads through a live reading, candid conversation, and an open audience Q&A.
📖 What to Expect:
- Live reading from Broken Threads
- Honest discussion and personal insights from Mishal Husain
- Audience Q&A
- Book signing opportunity
- Light refreshments
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Broken Threads is an extraordinary family memoir from acclaimed newsreader and journalist, Mishal Husain, uncovering the story of her grandparents' lives amidst empire, political upheaval and partition.
‘I witnessed the dwindling glow of the British Empire. I saw small men entrusted with great jobs, playing with the destiny of millions’.
The lives of Mishal Husain’s grandparents changed forever in 1947, as the new nation states of India and Pakistan were born. For years she had a partial story, a patchwork of memories and anecdotes: hurried departures, lucky escapes from violence and homes never seen again.
Decades later, the fragment of an old sari sent Mishal on a journey through time, using letters, diaries, memoirs and audio tapes to trace four lives shaped by the Raj, a world war, independence and partition.
Mumtaz rejects the marriage arranged for him as he forges a life with Mary, a devout Catholic from an Anglo-Indian family, while Tahirah and Shahid watch the politics of pre-partition Delhi unfold at close quarters. As freedom comes, bonds fray and communities are divided, leaving two couples to forge new identities, while never forgetting the shared heritage of the past.
An evening with Mishal Husain – by Kismet Café