Selected Chapters from 'What a Life'

• Introduction

Part A Pakistan

• 1. My genetic origin
• 2. Gorakhpur
• 3. Allahabad
• 4. Khaksar
• 5. Lahore Resolution
• 6. Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq
• 7. Bengal Famine
• 8. Feudalism and Reactionary Islam
• 9. Pakistan Resolution
• 10. Jinnah was clever
• 11. Quaid was Imperious
• 12. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• 13. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• 14. Murder and indictment of Gandhi
• 15. Migration
• 16. ICS
• 17. Mian Family of Baghbanpura
• 18. Lahore
• 19. Karachi
• 20. Oxford
• 22. Standing Army
• 23. Karachi Artists’ Gallery
• 24. Raza Kazim
• 25. Admiral S. M. Ahsan
• 26. General Yaqub Ali Khan
• 27. General Elections
• 28. East Pakistan
• 29. War
• 30. Urdu
• 31. Industry
• 32. Europe
• 33. Sisters
• 34. Other Ladies

Part B Heritage

• 35. Instant Islamic
• 36. Slums
• 37. Heritage
• 38. Moenjodaro
• 39. Sindh
• 40. Earthquake
• 41. Flood
• 42. Living in Defence Housing Society
• 43. Corruption

Part C Supreme Court

• 53. Supreme Court of Pakistan
• 54. Dawn distorts history for Aga Khan
• 55. Dawn distorts history of Sir Muhammad Iqbal
• 56. Yasmeen Lari
• 57. Relief

Part D Muslims Fail

• 58. Triumph of Faith
• 59. Science and Industry
• 60. Saracens
• 61. Japan