The narrow footpaths were lined by ramshackle, concrete block homes covered with rusty tin roofs towering three or four floors over my head. The smell of sewage mixed with curry, burning trash, cow dung, and woodsmoke hung in the air. I tried to keep my balance as I stepped from one ...
Moulana then each ask their names and knows the meaning of each person name….translates the meaning of their name and relates it to each of them…they all smile one at a time… He gets to a person..around 40 years old..Moulana shouts what’s your name in urdu receiving a reply “S...
ask about their training maybe. Instead, I look out at the Periyar river in which a crocodile is said to have caught Shankara’s foot when he was just a boy. It was then that
A paragraph from my book reads: “With the 12-foot-wide murmuring Nahr-i-Bihist gliding through it and the Emperor seated on his Peacock Throne or the Takht-e-Taawus, one can visualise the aptness of the verse by Amir Khusrau that was inscribed on it which says, ‘If there is a pa...
He hangs his jacket on the newel post at the foot of the stairs that lead up to the second floor. The stairs and the second floor of the house are in darkness. Energized, Parvez runs upstairs with glass and whisky. Mayfield begins the second stanza: Show all the world how to get ...