Entries from April 2007

April 29, 2007

The City of Djinns

The trials and turbulances faced by others are mere stories to us. We can’t feel them until somebody close to us is going through difficult times. Most of us have heard the ordeals of people who migrated from and to India and Pakistan at the time of the partition in 1947. Our generation was fortunate [...]

April 28, 2007

Moral Policing

I am a 19-year-old average girl with hopes and aspirations like any other girl in the world.
I live in Tehran. I never realized that this fact made me so different from the rest of the world’s young girls… till I went shopping one fateful evening. I was very decently dressed even by Iranian standards. Then [...]

April 27, 2007

Food for thought

I read this somewhere and thought of sharing it with you-
A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day & said ‘Lord, I would like to know what Heaven & Hell are like.’ The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors & the holy man [...]