GULABI KAGHAZ AUR ZARD PHOOL, by Rif’at Siraj, is very beautiful Urdu novel. The novel deals with a very sensitive and common issue and problem faced by upper class families of our society.
The society believes in freedom of actions and that every person is independent and can do what he wishes. This freedom at times causes many problems when a girl misuses this freedom and destroys her own life.
Yumna is teenaged adult girl from a very wealthy and well reputed family. The family is mixed up of people having different mindset. Her mother is always in her back protecting her freedom, she believes that she must provide all the luxuries for her daughter and she should not learn anything concern with home because she will get married to family who can give her such facilities as they do. Her father and grandmother are against her mother. They think that they should have a check on her activities but her mother keeps on protecting her.
Yumna involves in bad company and soon starts drinking and coming home late night when she was drunk. Her driver Noor Khan, one day, steps to her room, when she was drunk and not in sense, and steals her virginity. Next time Noor khan is caught red handed by her cousin Afsar Ali Khan and her mother also comes to know all the activities of her daughter.
Now she starts thinking about her future and realizes that she could not fulfill the liabilities of a mother and she was wrong in giving such freedom for her daughter, but now all her worries are useless as they have paid for what they did.
They are shocked when they know that Yumna is pregnant and her child could not be missed carriage and she has to give birth to the baby. She goes to Europe and gives birth to dead baby.
When she comes back Pakistan, she marries Afsar Ali whome she dislikes and at first night Afsar Ali says her that he accepted this marriage as he could not deny to his uncle who brought him up and provide him a good life, but he will not give her the status of a life partner as he knows all about her previous activities and that illegal pregnancy.
That’s how she pays, for the freedom of few years, for coming twenty two years. She feels regret a lot but she could not change her past.
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