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Articles with tag: father

Fathers and Daughters

Fatima Mirza   Sep 28, 2008   interacts: 189

When Abu liked to talk of the moon, sitting by the sea, he was quite the man. He would tell me complicated things about life, and how to live it as a running clock with no hands. To feel its essential present.

Letter to My Unborn Son

Fawad Butt   Jul 28, 2007   interacts: 10

I always joke that “every parent gets an opportunity to screw up their kids in their own particular way”

Guard of Honour

Pradeep Narayanan   May 23, 2007   interacts: 2

The outcome of the match between Eaton FC and with Weymouth FC did not evince too much of interest amongst the English football enthusiasts but for the fact that the world was to watch a ‘footballing genius’ one last time.

The Weight of Water

Jawahara Saidullah   Jul 20, 2005   interacts: 32

“Women are like water,” her father used to say, “they are gentle and patient and they take the shape of whatever situation into which they are poured.”

Pakistan Travelogue I

Parag Vohra   Mar 29, 2005   interacts: 581

This is the first ever visit to the land of my forefathers that anyone in my extended family has taken after the 1947 migration.

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