Qudsia Nisar (1948–2021) grew up in an environment where music, drama, poetry, and the visual arts were woven into everyday life. Her mother was a university graduate, and her father, originally from Lucknow, had studied at Aligarh Muslim University, bringing with him a strong literary and cultural background. Qudsia recalls that their home in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad) was often the scene of drama rehearsals, spontaneous musical gatherings, and poetry recitations. A major influence was her maternal uncle, the writer Yunas Wasti, who was a close friend of literary figures such as Hafeez Jalandhari, Nasir Jahān, and Faiz Ahmed Faiz. When the local Girls College in Lyallpur offered Fine Arts as a...