Rarely dramatic. In these books courage is usually a decision made quietly, at some personal cost, by somebody who had the option of doing nothing.
“Many of us do not even know that how this fear is affecting our every attitude which in turn is being reflected in our behaviors.I know someone.”

“Every word written and read made Ahmer weaker than ever before, and his display of strength was almost fading away.”

“Resistance would give you nothing but more pain and I promise there would be nothing more pleasing to me than torturing you to slaughter.”

“However he did always shared everything with Sara who, given her maturity irrespective of her age encouraged him to tell the truth.”

“Whether it is your vision for yourself, your family, your professional life or your fear; you should fight till the last ball in this game of life.”

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“Even now, she could recall everything in vivid detail; the suffocating darkness of the night, the chirping cicadas, the fear running like an electric current through her tiny body.”

“’ is a question we ask,Cause’ we are proudly stubborn, Resistant to change,And if anyhow we do;the change is worth regretting for.”

“Just as the night and the day can never co-exist, same is the case with faith and fear and the only way to overcome fear is to sink in His love.”

“Strength is the measure of the maximum load which can be placed on a material before permanently deforming or breaking.”

“Life has always squeezed the strength out of me so maybe that’s why I found it easy to dress my mother in blames.”

“Whenever I came back home from my university, I was always under the fear that my mother would have arranged my marriage somewhere.”

“However, something happened with Adnan that never happened with him – something that reduced his fear of being scolded or insulted in public.”

“The words go blur as I read, and as I read the story of fear and of undying love it came to me, she knew all along.”

“Most men never know how to fill their own bellies if the wife is away, yet they claim to be the ruler of the domestic kingdom.”

“Of course no one had the courage to say anything on her face and her way of doing things which was always criticized; never stopped due to her having supreme authority in the house.”

Our authors, in their own words and in the press.
Samar Malik, opens up about her writing journey, the emotions behind her latest poetry collection, and her experience publishing with Daastan.
کومل بھٹی لاہور سے تعلق رکھنے والی ایک باصلاحیت خاتون ہیں۔ وہ ایک لکھاری ہونے کے ساتھ ساتھ ایک کامیاب سائیکالوجسٹ بھی ہیں اور ایک نامور ادارے میں بطور ری سورس ٹیچر خدمات سر انجام دے رہی ہیں۔ کومل نے اپنے آس پاس موجود حقیقی کہانیوں کو موضوعِ سخن بنایا ہے اور انھیں الفاظ کی […]
ہ ایک ایسی لڑکی کی کہانی ہے جس کی خوش و خرم زندگی میں اچانک ہی سماعت سے محرومی داخل ہو جاتی ہے اور مشکلات اور آزمائشیں اس کے گھر کی راہ دیکھ لیتی ہیں۔ سماعت کی محرومی کا ہمت و حوصلے سے مقابلہ کرنے کی کہانی آپ میں بھی امید کی ایک نئی روح پھونک دے گی۔ اس باہمت لڑکی کی کہانی کے ساتھ ساتھ یہ کتاب اپنے اندر سماعت کے نقائص اور اس کے علاج سے متعلق بھی بیش بہا معلومات رکھتی ہے۔ اس کے علاوہ سماعت کے نقائص سے متعلق لوگوں کی کئی غلط فہمیوں کا بھی ازالہ کرتی ہے۔
In this Daastan interview, the teen author Noor Fatima shares the inspiration and psychological themes behind her gripping debut.
Daastan, founded on the very notion of being able to tell your stories by putting one's word out there in the world as a whole, becoming a part of this universe; materializes its principles through the journey of thousands of authors we have published. One such journey is that of Mahnoor Kareem, a teenager from Rawalpindi who grew up aspiring to be an exceptional author and chose to become one of them. From finishing a book in a single day to becoming the author of one, she is a treasured Daastan-published author. In an interview, she revealed that her father used to write short stories for so
ہر ناامید اور مایوس شخص کو اچھے دنوں کے آنے کی امید دلاتی یہ کتاب بلاشبہ اپنی نوعیت میں منفرد ہے۔ بُرا وقت ہمیشہ آزمائش بن کر آتا ہے اور ہر آزمائش انسان کو منزل سے ایک قدم اور قریب کر دیتی ہے۔
Faiza Anum shares writing journey and her inspiration behind “Of Leaves and Longing,” a poetry anthology on trees and nature.
”اِک پرخیال“بنیادی طور پر بہت سی تحریروں پر مبنی ہے۔اس میں موجود دلچسپ مضامین قاری کی توجہ کا مرکز بنتے ہیں۔اس کتاب کے ذریعے منیرہ قریشی نے دراصل قاری کو بہت اچھی اچھی نصیحتوں سے نوازا ہے۔ اپنے احساسات وخيالات کو لفظ کے پیرہن میں سموتے ”اک پرخيال!“ مختلف النوع موضوعات کا ایک ایسا آئینہ ہے جو فاضل مصنفہ کے دلی جذبات کا عکاس ہے
It is a giant pack full of friendships, thrillers, science, unique ideas, and more. The novel is written beautifully and in well-knitted form, you will get easily attracted to it even at the beginning of the story.