Read This, You Lawyers Seeking Escape From The Misery of Practicing Law

Wish I had had the nerve to start writing and leave my law practice before it started to kill me,

 ‘My legal work sows the seeds of my stories’: International Booker prize winner Banu Mushtaq (The Guardian)

How does Mushtaq’s work as a lawyer and activist inform her writing? “They are the fields where I sow the seeds of my stories. When people come to me with a legal issue, they want to share all their feelings […] which haunt me like anything. It goes on growing and then one day, I craft it into a short story.”

Can stories change things, the way a legal case can? “Of course, because people will not know what rights they have got, and how silent suffering is not the solution. They can fight back. That insight is given through my stories.” In the story Black Cobras, a woman is informed that Islam does allow women to be educated and to work, but the scriptures are “twisted” by scholars for their own benefit. “Do not beg,” she is told. “Demand justice.”

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