Tehmina also highlights the partiality of the discourse that does not regard sex as means for mutual pleasure and enjoyment, but is instead used as a tool of domination.

She describes how she took the help of words to tell people about her suffering, pain and to wake up the lioness sleeping in her. Lionessĭurrani decided to break up and put a stop to all the sufferings and pains in her life.

She endures Mustafa physical assaults and insults as a part of her destiny, because no one is with her – not even her family. This section revolves around the political turbulence in Pakistan and their immigration to London, where Mustafa had an affair with his younger sister “Adila”. He also destroyed the life of his first wife Shelly, and wore a man’s ego in dominating the life of others. Mustafa violently raped Tehmina which resulted in her pregnancy. There are many incidences in the story which shows that the source of women’s suppression lies in social discrimination. She pens down the many occurrences where Mustafa assaulted her womanhood. In this part, she shows the dark side of Mustafa as she bears the cruelty of being Mustafa’s wife. The book is divided into three parts Lion Of Punjab Tehmina divorced her first husband to marry Mustafa, dreaming about a fairytale which soon turned into a nightmare. On the other hand, Mustafa Khar, an important and trustworthy politician in the Zulfiqar Bhutto government, who later become the chief minister of Punjab, was not an autocrat but was ‘created’ by the society’s patriarchal behavior against women. This book revolves around the authoress, who belonged to an ultra-modern, well-off family of Pakistan and suffered this partial society’s repressiveness since childhood. In her autobiography, Tehmina Durrani, a Pakistani English authoress, describes her traumatic marital life with her second husband, Gulam Mustafa Khar. It was written in 1991, but still it manages to win hearts today by portraying the partiality in Pakistani society, where Muslim patriarchs dominate the identity of women. Such an insight can be seen in Tehmina Durrani’s autobiography, “My Feudal Lord”. The repressive, partial society suppresses her voice and teaches her to be ‘ethnically mute’.

Allegedly, it becomes even more enjoyable when the ‘prey’ is a woman. They both have one thing in common – suppressing the voices, rights, freedom of an easily-dominated person. All around the world, we can talk about how racist the society is, in developing or underdeveloped countries.

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