Based on a true story and now made into a film 'Raazi' Calling Sehmat' goes off like a shot and stays that way. A slim 200 page book it has everything - a stellar set of characters wherever you look, a dire situation and how they react to it. Fantastic.
Sehmat is the daughter of two brilliant characters - people - Tej and Hidayat Khan, who marry against their parents wishes and live together in Srinagar. Hidayat is a true blue patriot and spies for India against Pakistan using his commercial network and when he is unwell, decides to ask his daughter to take up the job - by marrying into a Pakistani family that is in the army. Sehmat gives up her love, the fabulous Aby, marries another fabulous person Iqbal, and dives headlong into espionage work at great danger to her life. She uncovers the plan to attack INS Vikrant and saves Indian Navy many blushes as they sink Ghazi. Sehmat returns having caused havoc there and lives in anonymity.
What a story! And so well told.
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