Category: Father and Daughter
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Walli – In the Name of M. (Part-III)
Walli’s timeline of resurrections is as smooth as a tragedy. A tragedy that lives inside a being forever. Remember that story of Musa asking the shepherd to pray properly as directed by God and not commit blasphemy? The shepherd stopped talking and loving God the way he did. He adopted Musa’s directions of praying as…
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Letter for M.
I have been writing a letter for the last few days, so was away. A letter for M. After failing – inside and outside the court – I tried again to make a way for M but obviously, there are hurdles. There are villains. It’s a family. Pretending to be Corleons but not. One is…
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Walli – In the Name of M. (Part-II)
It is about the pain which gave his words meaning. It is about Walli who writes in red ink. He writes and bleeds. He humanizes his pain, to decorate your bookshelves, which you put in the history section. It is about the pain which kills your organs gradually inside you, like cancer, but cancer is…
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Walli – An Old Conversation
“I will kill you,” said the voice on the phone. “I will kill your whole family. I don’t care about a single fucking thing. I will fucking kill you all.” “Okay. But talk to me with respect,” Walli replied calmly. “You don’t know me. I have abused lots of people in my time. I was…
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Walli – Vicious Cycle
There is pain. Then there is spiritual pain. The one you nurture so you may live spiritually. At least. Walli’s life may be a physical tragedy, but his pain was purely spiritual. Without a doubt. While sitting with Buddha on the hills, Walli gave him the secret. It wasn’t the hunger or abandoning your family.…
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Walli – In The Name of M.
There was a problem. He was sure what to write but he was not sure how. Should he write about her as M.? He talked about her as M. With time, and with a never-ending state of separation, he started to talk about her a little openly. Daughter. His daughter. And then, with the continuation…
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In the Name of Zainabs – Our Daughters
There was a Zainab before. A blind girl. In the times of Zia. She was raped. Gang-raped. But as she was blind and couldn’t identify the culprits, she was stoned. Stoned to death for adultery. The so-called “sharia” by Zia was imposed. Just walk through the corridors of government or private organizations and you will…
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Mothers
Away from all these conspiracy theories reside our mothers. The mothers who send their kids to schools even when they know they aren’t as safe as they were once. Over a hundred mothers saw their little kids for the last time when they went to school on 16th December 2014. There are mothers who are…
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A Man, A Woman, & A Daughter
He saw the sleeping woman along with her daughter. 12 noon. June. Ugly weather. Like others, he moved ahead. But that voice, the inner voice, that echoes in his brain like shrieks, didn’t let him move. He had to come back from a mile. He stopped his car. Embarrassed. Who is looking at him? He…
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Truth & Lies
Lie Lie another time and again, your lie will become the truth; misshapen into grotesque images of an alternate reality, believed by some and swallowed by all as the lies you spin spiral out of control How long do you think this charade will last? One day soon, the dominoes will fall The threads that…