- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
Fifteen years after her horrific gang rape by a local clan in her village in Pakistan, Mukhtar Mai is reliving her ordeal — and courageousness — through a US opera inspired by her story. “I was very emotional when I first started watching it and began reliving the incident in my mind,” Mai, 37, said after attending the Los Angeles premiere of Thumbprint. “But then as the opera progressed, it became easier to watch and I felt more courage,” she said in Urdu, speaking through a translator. The opera, by composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Susan Yankowitz, recounts Mai’s 2002…
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