Gawalan | Badshah Ki Niyyat Bigar Jaye To Kya Hota Hai? | Khalida Hussain

The story begins like an old folk tale. A king loses his way while hunting and reaches the humble home of a milkman and his daughter. The land is fertile, the cattle are healthy, and milk is plentiful. But when the king begins thinking about taking a greater share of this prosperity for his treasury, something strange happens. The milk suddenly begins to dry up. The young milkmaid concludes that something must have gone wrong with the king’s intentions. Years later, this old tale becomes the foundation of a much larger question. A young woman living in modern society sees hunger, injustice, bitterness, violence, declining resources, and the breakdown of human relationships around her. Remembering her grandfather’s unfinished story, she becomes convinced that somewhere at the top, someone’s intentions must have gone wrong. She begins searching for those responsible. The ruler says real authority belongs to the minister. The minister directs her toward the treasurer. The treasurer blames forces elsewhere. Responsibility keeps moving from one powerful office to another until the ordinary citizen is trapped in a system where everyone has authority, yet no one accepts responsibility. Through fantasy, satire, symbolism, and political observation, Khalida Hussain creates a powerful allegory about power, corruption, exploitation, bureaucracy, accountability, and the relationship between rulers and ordinary people. “Gawalan” asks a deceptively simple question: When an entire society begins to decay, whose intentions have really gone wrong? Listen to Khalida Hussain’s remarkable Urdu afsana “Gawalan” in the voice of Arif Bahalim. Afsana: Gawalan Writer: Khalida Hussain Narration: Arif Bahalim If you enjoy classic Urdu short stories, political satire, symbolic fiction, literary storytelling, and Urdu audiobooks, subscribe to Bolti Kitabein, like and share the video, and leave your thoughts in the comments. #Gawalan #Gwalan #KhalidaHussain #UrduAfsana #UrduKahani #UrduLiterature #UrduAdab #PoliticalSatire #ArifBahalim #BoltiKitabein