Posts tagged "partition"
Stories Within Us Wish to Live

Stories Within Us Wish to Live

NOTE: This story was first published in ‘Open Road Review’ dated 01 August 2015… . My father is 83 and still goes on his morning walks. He is fond of solving Sudoku puzzles and calls up long distance to remind me to get newspaper clippings with these puzzles. ‘We don’t get this newspaper here in...
Haramzadon bhaago! Review of ‘The Race of my Life’

Haramzadon bhaago! Review of ‘The Race of my Life’

One of the factors that has probably given India a Milkha Singh is the way his instructors made him run. In this book that has text by the man himself as told to Sonia Sanwalka, Milkha Singh says: Gurdev was a taciturn, no-nonsense kind of man, whose tough exterior hid his softer, gentler side. He...