Original Title: Raja Gidh by Bano Qudsia

Raja Gidh by Bano Qudsia

Raja Gidh by Bano Qudsia is one of the foremost widely read and acclaimed Urdu novels. God is that the Urdu word for a vulture and Raja may be a Hindi synonym for a king. The name anticipates the dominion of vultures. In fact, parallel to most plots of the novel, an allegorical story of such a kingdom is narrated. The metaphor of the vulture as an animal feeding totally on the carcasses of dead animals is used to portray the trespassing of ethical limits imposed by society or by faith. within the opinion of the many readers and critics, she manages to convince them that the pursuance of Haraam, be it financial, moral, or emotional, leads to the deterioration of an individual's normality in some sense. She seems to suggest that the abnormality is transferred genetically to the subsequent generation. aside from the above implication, the novel has many social, emotional, and psychological aspects. The nostalgic narration of the historical Government College Lahore and of the Lawrence Garden Lahore lights upon the times of the seventies and eighties. But she doesn't sacrifice the flow of the narrative anywhere during this novel. Her characters aren't black and white ones as a number of the critics would really like to suggest. Every sensitive reader who has attended a university or a university during a Pakistani setting is sure to find some similarities between themselves and one among the characters. Plot: Seemin Shah, hailing from an upper bourgeoisie family, falls crazy together with her handsome schoolmate Aftab within the MA Sociology class at Government College Lahore. Seeming may be a modern and attractive urban girl and attracts most of her male class fellows, including the narrator Qayyum and therefore the young liberal professor Suhail. Aftab belongs to a Kashmiri business family. Though he also loves her, he can't rise above his family values and succumbs to his parent's pressure to marry someone against his wishes and leave for London to seem after his closed corporation. Now the long story of separation begins.