Nawabuddin Electrician by Daniyal Mueenuddin: My Review

Nawabuddin Electrician by Daniyal Mueenuddin: My Review

“I was brought up with kicks and slaps and never enough to eat. I’ve never had anything of my own, no land, no house, no wife, no money, never, nothing. I slept for years on the railway-station platform in Multan.” - From the text The writer has tried to deliver a message that Nawabuddin Electrician is running scams against the government by slowing down the speed of the electric meters, but is respected for this act in the society, on the other hand, the robber who tries to snatch Nawabuddin’s motorcycle ends up shooting him and getting shot is left to die. To my understanding, it’s not the question of the lesser evil that I am concerned with but rather with the paradox of how the system conditions and forces one to commit crimes and later on punishes them as well. This is not a defence for the crime, the criminal must be punished depending on the nature of the crime but the partner in crime, that is, the system that rendered one criminal must be taken as criminal as well. Crime…