Hindustan Times
These are the jottings of my old diary. I wrote it on August, 2007. This morning I read it again and thought of sharing with you:
The hill was alive with the sound of the gravedigger’s shovel. I was looking for a grave. In the next hill perhaps? It was dug yesterday. For Qurratulain Hyder. She was an Urdu writer who died on August 21, following a prolonged lung ailment, in a hospital in Noida, a Delhi suburb. I have never read Ms. Hyder. Yet I came here in Jamia Nagar’s Muslim graveyard to express my sadness at her passing away. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 11:54 am
Filed under Musings · Tagged Delhi suburb, graveyard, Jamia Nagar, Noida, urdu novelist
