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Poet and writer, Kishwar Naheed's astonishingly titled book "Buri Aurat ki Katha" was published in India in1994. The auto biography is more concerned with the social status of women in general rather than then her life story. The first six out of thirteen chapters of the book encompasses details  of her hometown Bulandshahar, her family traditions, difficulties of migrating to Pakistan during Partition, making pen-friends at the tender age of 13, college days in Lahore, Mushairas etc.
A chapter titled "Pehli laghzish" includes details of  her affair and sudden secret marriage  with Yusuf Kamran which led to severed ties with her  family and a bitter relationship with her in laws. She also talks about her financial troubles, childbirth and upbringing and the extravagant,  flirtatious, lifestyle of her husband. Kishwar in her book talks about friends from all over the world,  government servants and contemporary poets and writers with little hesitation. In doing so, she  unmasks them. She also describes incidence of odd and funny  behavior  of  people  under the influence of alchohol . Apart from this, she  discusses   certain  feminine  historical   characters with feminist  standpoint. The style of the book is very different from other autobiographies. There are long monologues and soliloquies between the description of events which creates an effect of prosaic poetry.