<g data-gr-id="36">Tarar’s</g> book ‘Leaves from Lahore’ published by <g data-gr-id="37">Har Anand</g> Publications is scheduled to be released in November in Lahore.
<g data-gr-id="38">Tarar</g>, in a free-wheeling telephonic conversation with Millennium Post from Pakistan, shared her experience post the controversy struck twitter a few days before Pushkar’s death and after she died on January 17, 2014.
“It is unfortunate that this is how I am known to people. As far as my personal life is concerned, everything has changed after that. Yes, people got to know me because of that incident, but after that too I kept writing.”
It is not that I am invited to television shows to speak only on that subject. Other than maybe once a year, for example, when the investigations began in January, I was called (on a show) to explain my point of view. I have always been here (Pakistan) and that has been happening in India. Because of that curiosity people want to know who am I, and when they read my book, they will be pleasantly surprised.”
When asked if the controversy worked in her favour <g data-gr-id="35">Tarar</g> said: “Yes, it did. But I made sure at that I was quiet on it. I never spoke or wrote about it. Someone even asked me to write a book on it, which I refused.”
Asked if the flak she faced was painful, she said: “It still is. Right now, it has become infrequent. A woman (Sunanda Pushkar) starts tweeting to me and then calls me an ISI agent, talks about my character, accuses me of being a hacker and other things.”
She kept saying all these things and after two days she dies, it was the most surreal, bizarre and unfortunate thing that could have ever happened. Incidentally, people started connecting the two things. In fact, the problems between a husband and a wife are bigger. I don’t think that could cause any wife such heartache that she would do something to herself.”
<g data-gr-id="30">Tarar</g> added: “I say it is the most surreal thing because I have never met her and don’t know who she was. Even now, when they are talked about, my name is mentioned. Because of the curiosity the incident generated, people started reading my work and realised what my writing is all about.”