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Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan, is a twentieth century autobiographical poem. It is about a girl who is trying to decide whether she wants to adapt to the Pakistani way of living and dressing or stay with the English tradition. Although born in Pakistan, Moniza Alvi was brought up in England, the daughter of a Pakistani father and an English mother. This poem explores the dilemma of divided culture, divided families and a 'self' that feels the pull of somewhere else. Moniza Alvi finds it tough to decide between her own culture and the place where she has spent most of her life. Its hard for her to make her mind up and she has ambivalent feelings, and feels confused as there is both a good side and bad side to living in both countries 'England' and 'Pakistan'. The clothes that Moniza Alvi receives from...

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