The One or the Other
By Batul Mukhtiar | September 26th, 2008 | Category: Identity, India | Add Book Mark: Identity, India 12 commentsA friend sent me this sms today.
“6 am rush hour. Getting stuff ready for school. I get a call on my cell. A polite male voice wishes me ’salaam walekum, bhai jaan hai?’ … I stammer ‘nahi, nahi’. My mind is blank, being yanked into a different world. I search earnestly, is it — salaam [...]
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