CALLING SEHMAT

 : Calling Sehmat

 : Harinder Sikka

 : 204

 : #fiction

⭐ : /5

🇮🇳 Hola bookstagrammers! How about a daring tale of an India’s unsung heroine?

🇮🇳 The story starts with how Sehmat’s parents, from different religions, found each other and fell in love! The description is so alluring that you wish to have a love story as theirs. Sehmat’s father Hidayat Khan was a rich, successful businessman who also helped source vital information from Pakistan into India using his flourishing business which was the perfect foil. 

🇮🇳 Sehmat was a beautiful, young and patriotic girl who enjoyed her college life away from home, like others. She was a talented dancer and fell in love with Aby, her college mate. Meanwhile, as Hidayat Khan falls sick, Sehmat is summoned home and assigned her father’s role. She’s married off to the son of a well-connected Pakistani General. Will Sehmat be able to carry on her father’s legacy? How will she survive in a foreign enemy country? What happens to Aby and Sehmat? 

 🇮🇳 This is the story of an astoundingly brave woman, who has fought all odds to defend her ‘watan’, India. The author’s writing does little justice to the role played by Sehmat in her life-threatening encounters when she stumbles upon information that could destroy the naval might of India. Being brought up in a conservative manner, the way she rises to the situation when she’s sent off to enemy land is what her character is made of! 

🇮🇳 “𝕎𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕨𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕖, 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕜𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕞𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕!”

The author has failed to include Sehmat’s early life which could have helped us understand why she easily agreed to her father’s dying wish and transformed from an ordinary girl into a deadly spy. Also very little is known about Iqbal, her husband. I would recommend this book to every patriotic soul out there!