When they left for Pakistan, they carried books and the stamps from their soap factory. Everything else would have to be rebuilt.

In 1947, Habib ur Rahman's family leaves Punjab while Sikh friends plead with them to stay. His mother is pregnant with him. Across the border, his grandfather starts making soap again, restoring the security that Partition had swept away. But a decade later, bereavement and business losses begin to undo that recovery.

For Habib, education offers a way forward. It also brings a difficult choice: pursue his own opportunities abroad or help the family whose sacrifices made those opportunities possible.

From a childhood near Toba Tek Singh to agricultural research in Pakistan, the Philippines and work in Ethiopia, Fruits of Hope follows a life shaped by responsibility, intellectual curiosity and the wish to make learning available to others. At its center is a home sustained by his wife Nasreen and by women whose work rarely received public recognition.

Warm and candid, this family memoir asks what we truly pass on—and finds its answer in the lives made possible by another person's hope and care.

Fruits of hope and care

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