![]() ![]() ![]() Rano, who arrives very late, sees Momal in bed with another “man” and turns around. Longing for him, she gets one of her maids to dress up in his clothes and sleep beside her. On learning this, the king gives more and more work to Rano, until one day he is so late that Momal thinks he will not come. Rano works the whole day for the king, but at night returns to be with his beloved. The jealous king returns to his palace across the desert with Rano. ![]() Momal is a courtesan who prefers the king’s minister, Rano, over the king. Omar argues that even he should be put through trial to prove he never violated her consent. So, he lets her go, but the villagers accuse her of infidelity (as in Ramayana?) and she is asked to go through a trial by fire. He imprisons her for many days in his fortress, but she insists on marrying the man she is engaged to in her village. Marvi is a peasant who is abducted by an aristocrat called Omar. ![]() Each has a female protagonist, hailing from Northwest India, from Gujarat to Punjab, and from different social strata. In the 16th Century, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai wrote a set of love poems in Sindhi to express Sufi mysticism, metaphorically capturing the tension between love and law, head and heart. Published on 14th February, 2021, in Mid-day. ![]()
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