Personal Narratives :: Tracing Roots
Recent articles from the archives
Streets of Bahadurgunj
saif ahmad Jun 28, 200962, 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, 2008Surraiya 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, 2006One 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.


