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Speak so that I may see you

I was sitting with my American friend when a 10 year old girl joined us. We didn’t know her before but she asked to join our company till her parents come. She was a lovely girl and being in the club there was no reason to decline her request. I just wondered if she would bear with us. To my surprise she was so friendly and talkative.

TO SISTER LIRIDONA! – A Poem from Albania

Ndue Dragusha, a serious creator in the genre of poetry and prose, from Albania, the birthplace of Mother Teresa, and a country also known for its medieval-era castles, shares his poem Ndue Dragusha was born on September 29, 1953 in the village of Dragusha, on the outskirts of Lezha (Albania). Ndue finished his secondary education at

Visiting the Rabari in India’s Kutch: nomads on an ancient land

India’s nomadic pastoralists migrate for eight months a year, covering huge distances The animals are returning on a biblical scale, flooding into this green expanse, like grains of sand rushing into an hourglass. Water buffalo, camel caravans, herds of cows and goats swarm over the horizon towards me on these vast, stark plains

Lady Evelyn Cobbold: a woman against all odds

I was once scrolling down my Facebook account and then I stopped at a post. It was Ms. Yvonne Ridley’s photo of 20 Scottish Muslims on a mission to visit a lonely grave in the Highlands. There they prayed and remembered the deceased with due honor. I was intrigued by the fact that the very grave is up the mountains and it belongs to the

Connection with three millennium BC – A Short Story

A piece of fiction that narrates the story of archaeologist Sir John Marshall’s grandson Peter, who traveled a long way from London and breathed his last in Karachi before visiting Mohenjo-Daro, the site of Great Indus Civilization On one cool evening in London, barrister Mazhar Kazi received a phone call from Dr. Imdad Ali, his