From the memoir: When Oscar Wilde’s daughter-in-law did ‘Oriental’ makeup for Qurratulain Hyder

An excerpt from ‘A Tilt in Time, Partition and Pakistan: A Mid-century Memoir’, by Qurratulain Hyder, translated from the Urdu by Fatima Rizvi.

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