[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 11 | June 1, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Abstract:

The present paper probes the issue related to economic condition Pakistan and differentiate between poor and rich people. It demonstrates how the economic differences create social and emotional problems among these two groups. Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron present these two types of social classes which have unfriendly experience for each others.  The sincere study of this aspect discovers many roots for social disharmony and chaos in Pakistan.

Article

Socio-economic problems of Pakistan stand as microcosm of global problems. The need of the hour is to understand that such economic disparity of a particular nation is not a problem of the nation only. In today’s time, when thousands of unemployed or poor are turning to be terrorist, it can’t be regarded as a problem of Pakistan only. The Novel of Kamila Shamsie thus, do the works of an eye opener for the rest of the world. (more…)