‘In Extreme Need of Guidance’: Afterword
'In Extreme Need of Guidance', the book being serialised here, captures the first 16 years of writer Sultana Nahar's life. This is the Afterword by the author.
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I would rather stop coming here
'In Extreme Need of Guidance', the book being serialised here, captures the first 16 years of writer Sultana Nahar's life. "A Bomb Falls" is the 10th chapter in the book.
1y ago
In Extreme Need of Guidance
On summer days when the sunlight falls through the trees it scatters into a play of light and shadows on the ground. My memories of Fareed are like that.
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The dust storm
For iftar during that month we were served milk with rosewater which I found quite delicious, and gulab jamun served as dessert. When some girls didn’t want or didn’t finish their portions they would give it to me and I would accept happily.
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‘Listen, don’t forget to send me to Lahore’
Once on the road I could see that Lahore was bigger than I had imagined. The trees were large and red dust, like that from the desert, billowed in wide avenues.
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Robbers, teachers and graveyards
'In Extreme Need of Guidance', the book being serialised here, captures the first 16 years of Sultana Nahar's life. "The Engineer" is the sixth chapter in the book.
1y ago
The life aquatic
I was an otter. I was an amphibian. Even at night I would be in the pond or the river.
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Cement Swans
On moonlit nights when the perfume of the roses thickened the air, I was in a trance, an ecstasy of body and mind. The beauty of the night has held an allure for me my whole life.
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February 4, 2023
‘It feels like a living thing’: The House on RK Mission Road
When I think of the thick limestone walls of the house now I think of the essence of the generations of our family that it has absorbed.
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