Mishal Husain.
MISHAL HUSAIN: BIOGRAPHY OF HER FAMILY
BROKEN tHREADS: mY FAMILY FROM EMPIRE TO INDEPENDENCE (2024)
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Mishal Husain describes her grandparents’ experiences during the extraordinary upheaval in 1947 which created the independent countries of India and Pakistan. She weaves memories and anecdotes of the time into a story of rapid departures, fortunagte escapes from violence, and homes that are lost forever.
The Daily Telegraph review described the book as: '[A] superb family history that teems with historical colour and details that both fascinate and shock … Broken Threads is a calm and compassionate tale; but it also offers an accessible primer on a little-understood area of recent world history’. William Dalrymple wrote of the book: ‘Mishal Husain weaves an intricate family web that catches all the hope and optimism, as well as the tragedy and disappointment, of the birth of Pakistan and independent India in 1947. With clarity, warmth and profound sympathy, as well as some brilliant archival detective work, she performs a fascinating act of reconstruction’
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Mishal Husain (born 1973) is a journalist who has worked for BBC Radio and BBC Television. She is currently one of the main presenters on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. She was born in Northampton to Pakistani parents, her mother a teacher and her father a urologist. She read Law at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, follosed by a Master’s in international law at the European University Institute in Florence.
