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Submitted to Contest #207
Guide to Urdu/Kashmiri terms used in the text:·      Angrez ki aulaad (Urdu): An Englishman’s child (used to indicate that someone is acting entitled to be treated with privilege)·      Phupho (Urdu): Paternal aunt·      Noon-chai (Kashmiri): Translates to salted tea; a traditional pink hued, salted tea from the valley of Kashmir.“Nabeela? Nabeela? Nabeela?!”“WHAT?! WHAT?!...
The evening was burning dimly at the end of winter, promising spring. The events of the day kept rising in front of Ramia's eyes: Hadi falling from the pear tree; Tathi rushing to her fallen, seraphic grandson's aid; Hadi with his broken arm in a white gauze sling; Amma walking calmly up the sloping road to the house, her body following her head as bit by bit, she bloomed into view; Amma tenderly nursing her son-with-a-broken-arm. Ramia sniffled as she completed Hadi's homework for him: it took away her playtime...
Submitted to Contest #184
 Aftab huffed on the bicycle as he reached Gulmohar Lane. The flyover opening onto the National Highway stretched python-like to his right, deserted. In the fifteen kilometers he had cycled, he had seen two hawkers who stood under the blaze of the July sun on empty roads to sell fried peas, water chestnuts and pakoras to the occasional passerby, and one other cyclist.       Four months of the pandemic lockdown following close on the heels of a seven-month long political shutdown had turne...
Submitted to Contest #158
Guide to the pronounciation of the names: -Mohsin is Moh-sin ( Moh rhymes with Though and Sin is just pronounced in the usual way) -Jibran is Jib-ran ( The J is as in Jug and Jib rhymes with nib. Ran rhymes with barn) -Mehreen is Meh-reen (Meh is the same as the exclamatory 'Meh!' and reen rhymes with sheen/green) I hope this helps! ...
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