Not that difficult to ‘digest’
KARACHI: “Is the latest issue of Khawateen Digest here as yet?” an abaya-clad woman approaches a roadside news stall with the question.
“Yes, of course,” says the man running the stall smiling as he hands over a copy of the digest to her from a stack in front of him. “We start getting all these queries about the latest issue of this or that digest even before the beginning of a month and looking at the demands the publishers, too, send in these monthly publications early,” says Mohammad Anwer, owner of one such news stall at the Regal bus stop.
Shoa Digest, Khawateen Digest and Kiran Digest seem the most popular monthly publications here, as just about everyone there has these names on their lips. “The reason for this is their including serialised novels by well-known Urdu novelists of the likes of Humaira Ahmed, Riffat Siraj, Nighat Abdullah and Nimra Ahmed. You read the first part and then you are hooked and yearning to get to the next part,” says the newsagent.