Re: All Time Best Literary Heroine
Asghari is the ultimate portrayal of Naik Parveen, SughaR lady who didn’t waste time in playing with dolls like her elder sister Akbari. She managed her sasural well and was able to built a big haveli in Khanum ka bazar.
Recently read that such characters were there in European literature of 19th / early 20th century especially novelists like Daniel Defo (who is otherwise famous for Robinson Crusoe, but google tells that he also wrote novels like Roxana, the fortunate mistress) 