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Dear BodyAuthor: Sarosh Ibrahim
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Why Women Learn to Stay Quiet? | Arslan Athar's Forty Days of Mourning | EP 24 | Dear Body
Episode 24
Tuesday, 24 February, 2026
In this episode, Sarosh Ibrahim discusses Arsalan Attar’s Forty Days of Mourning and examines the layered complexity of its protagonist, Saleema.Set across pre-Partition and Partition Hyderabad, the novel presents a woman whose life is shaped by family, marriage, and social surveillance. Rather than framing her story through morality, this episode explores the importance of resisting quick judgment and instead understanding the structural and emotional forces shaping her choices.What makes this debut novel compelling is its refusal to silence its female protagonist. Despite societal constraints, Saleema is given interiority, contradiction, and voice.
