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Personal Narratives :: Tracing Roots

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Streets of Bahadurgunj

saif ahmad   Jun 28, 2009

62, Basu Road, Bahadurgunj, was the address of the ancestral house where I was born. Joint families, uncles, cousins living on different floors. The House was known as "Plot", elders forgot to name the house and everyone would call it "Plot".

An Ode Called Amritsar

Ammara Ahmad   Jul 14, 2008


On hearing that I was about to visit her ancestral city, my mother gave me instructions to reach her childhood home from the railway station...

My Most Memorable Journey

saman abbasi   Apr 25, 2008

Surraiya Bi had finally reached India her place of birth after eleven years of yearning and praying.

Blasphemy, Photocopy and Electromagnetic Theory

ahmad hayat   Jul 4, 2006

One of the strategic assumptions made by him was that the “Puraana Daur” is back. “Puraana Daur” signified the old times when students, backed by corrupt local politicians, walked on campus brandishing guns, acting like mafia guys.

Islam, Prophet and Blasphemy

talawat bokhari   May 19, 2006

Blasphemy

Younus Shaikh   Apr 13, 2004

Muslims are the first victims of Islamism.

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