![]() ![]() Living in the City with her father and her extended family, she loves her job for the freedom it affords her in a world where men make all the rules while women are not even allowed to have Facebook accounts. Her world revolves around her job and her workplace. ![]() Narrated in an epistolary form, we are introduced to the revolution that rocked the City through the voice of Sameera, a young Pakistani radio jockey at the radio station, Orange Radio. It is also the country Benyamin lived till 2013, before returning to his home town in Kerala. The only country in the Middle East that was witness to violent protests during the Arab Spring. ![]() But, we know the place our dear author is referring to. Yes, City is what Benyamin likes to call the place the novel is set in. Set in the Arab Spring of 2011, Jasmine Days narrates the story of Sameera Parvin, an immigrant in the City, in the Middle East. A challenge Malayalam writer Benyamin has very successfully surmounted in his latest, Jasmine Days. Weaving an interesting story around these two notorious elements can be quite a challenge. Politics and religion is a heady combination. ![]()
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