By Reema Abbasi

Dawn March 24th , 2015

In all these centuries, Sohni’s abode has seen many reincarnations. However, today it is at its most colourful and relevant — she’s immortalised by her defiance and represents resistance in times of the Hudood Ordinances and karo kari.

Sohni is an everlasting attack on narratives of regular definitions and social orders; having quashed every convention, she survives in purity, without a trace of a stigma.