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Articles with tag: memoirs

The New Beginning

Mohammad Gill   Nov 1, 2004   interacts: 37

My story is the story of many thousands of other people on both sides of the line. I regard myself lucky in one way that my family and I didn’t suffer any loss of limb....

The Allahabad I Knew

Jawahara Saidullah   Oct 27, 2004   interacts: 58

A customer was looking for Jacques Derrida’s works. He and the owner lamented Derrida’s death before launching into a passionate discussion on deconstruction. I smiled to myself. This was the Allahabad I remember, where words and books and wri

Jamnagar Memoirs

Parag Vohra   Sep 23, 2004   interacts: 30

It may seem strange that a celebratory function was held a day after a plane had gone down with officers and crew. Armed Forces in general have the ethos that the show must go on. Comrades will die and they will be mourned yet life must go on.

The Girl from Napoli

Asif Naqshbandi   Apr 7, 2004   interacts: 48

Al Ghazzali said that it is impossible to describe the pleasures of orgasm to an impotent man no matter how much one tries.

Making Waves in the Sky

Nazar Khan   Mar 23, 2004   interacts: 51

We were now only a few hundred feet above the ground and cutting through the air really fast. All eyes were glued to the sky. We were in the stadium for only a few fleeting moments; and then it was all over.

Flashbacks from School

Nazar Khan   Dec 17, 2003   interacts: 54

Those were also the days when we grew by an inch a month and the body chemistry was changing rapidly. Our voices changed and hair began to grow at odd places. Unfamiliar powerful forces, of which we knew little about, were building up inside us ...

Sargodha & Migs

Nazar Khan   Oct 19, 2003   interacts: 79

But the skyline of Sargodha would always remember the roars and thunders of those quaint Chinese birds which kept its skies so colourful, noisy and interesting for so many years.

The Summer of ’69

Nazar Khan   Jun 2, 2003   interacts: 198

Her fully blossomed body in a tight swimsuit with both of them visible was an uncomfortable sight and the tension in us would soon be uncontrollably evident on our tight swimming trunks.

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