Like her father, Sumaiya believed that everyone has the right to make individual choices. But like him, she was conscious that people needed limits, and she was skeptical about the culture of individualism that dominates Western life. It starts so early, she marveled: “Even in nursery, in Show and Tell, there’s a sense of ‘Look what I’ve got.’ There’s all this emphasis on the fact that it’s your thing and you’re showing it off.” I’d never thought of Show and Tell as baby’s first building block of individualism, but seen through Sumaiya’s eyes, it suddenly seemed like an early foray into the
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