Nida Mumtaz's Key Ideas from My Feudal Lord
by Tehmina Durrani, William Hoffer, Marilyn Mona Hoffer

I fantasized about our house in Lahore and, in my mind, planned how I would redecorate it. This was metaphorical; the house was my country and its interior design my politics.

It is a strategy used by negotiators to wear down hijackers and other terrorists; buy enough time, and the target will eventually succumb.

It was all so strange. Our family, full of intrigue and deception, backbiting and backstabbing, was a microcosm of Pakistani society. The rule was simple: Do whatever you want to do, just blanket it.