Khalish Tera Jism Ki By Nimra Anwar

About this novel

Khalish Tera Jism Ki (Urdu: خلش تیرے جسم کی) by Nimra Anwar is a short, dark Urdu romance about guilt, regret and a man begging for forgiveness. It opens with Haris Khan, broken and drunk, pleading with Hooriya, a woman he has clearly wronged.

“Muaaf kar do,” Haris says, but Hooriya just keeps staring at him. Is she angry? No, she says, only shocked to see the state he is in, and her eyes fill with tears. Seeing her cry, he tells her not to; he is only paying for his sin. He reaches out to touch her, to see whether she has really come or whether he is only imagining her, and she runs from his room. He stumbles after her, loses his balance on the stairs and falls.

گناہ کی سزا، اور ایک ایسا پچھتاوا جو پیچھا نہیں چھوڑتا۔

Then the story goes back to show who these two once were. Haris Khan was strict about work, so strict that when he walked into the office, the guards would warn everyone that Khan had arrived, because the staff relaxed the moment he left. He stepped out of his car with a shawl over his shoulder, a tall, fair man with a short beard, in a cotton suit and Peshawari sandals. He barely answered people’s salam, and he was the very picture of pride. Hooriya was his secretary. She had only her mother, her father having died, which is why she worked in his office. She was a good, modest girl, and the morning we meet her she brings him tea while he waves her away, busy with something important.

Nimra Anwar contrasts the arrogant boss of the past with the ruined man of the present, and the reader is left asking what happened in between. It’s a serious story about pride, wrongdoing and remorse.

You can read Khalish Tera Jism Ki online here or download the complete PDF for free. More by Nimra Anwar: Khan Zada and Mera Ishq Namukamal, or see all Nimra Anwar novels.