Monarch of the country have been given the duty to protect the citizens fromĪny aggressive behaviour by the protestors. Situation at home is tense as all her uncles and father who are serving the Sameera’s life also gets disturbed as the Matters get worse once the protesters set up campsĪnd Ali becomes a protestor too. Was arrested and jailed wrongly and how his family has paid a huge priceīecause of their faith happens to be different from the faith of the rulers of

Sameera becomes more close to Ali and he opens up to her about how his father Soon the protests began and the turbulence started. That’s when the revolution started and spread even to her ‘City’. That’s when an incident in a nearby city took place, wherein a young vegetable seller immolated himself for being arrested and tormented by the police for selling vegetables on a donkey cart in the city ( refer to note). She is introduced to various new people including Malayalees from India whom others refer to as the ‘Malayalam mafia’ (as they are huge group who prefer to talk in Malayalam), she makes friends at her office and through one such friend named Ali Fardan, she even becomes a part of a band named ‘String Walkers’.Īs she becomes more friendly with Ali, she realises that he is a second class citizen of the country because he happens to be a Shia Muslim (Shia is a branch of Islam). Sameera is a lively, energetic and talkative girl, who soon finds an opportunity to work as a Radio Jockey with ‘Orange Radio’. This city is unnamed and is referred to as ‘City’. She and her father live with the rest of her father’s brothers in a joint family set up. She is a young Pakistani girl who moved to one of a Middle Eastern country’s ‘City’ to live with her father (who works in the police department and lived away from the rest of her family in Pakistan). Jasmine Days is Sameera Parvin’s story told as a first person narrative. Winner of the first JCB Prize for Literature, 2018

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