<p>Pakistan's finest women writers ? Jamila Hasmi, Mumtaz Shirin and Fahmida Riaz among others ? introduce us to the compelling cadences of rich literary culture. A naive peasant is left with a white man's baby; a frustrated housewife slashes her husband's silk pyjamas; a middle-class housewife sees visions of salvation in the tricks of circus animals?<br><br>Equally at ease with polemic and lyricism, these writers mirror the events of their conv...