I like the way Jammu looks in winter. Last year, the neighbours were a couple of college kids from Drass who played cricket on the roof-top all day long. This years it’s the family of a stone-crusher worker from Kargil.
With her grand-daughter, Subril. She was the one who started the conversation. ‘Aap ka Naam kya hai’. That according to her grandfather is the best she can manage in urdu till now. |
Believes it is right that the girls should be married young. ‘If boys go ‘haywire’ no one asks anything, but the world stops in case of girls.’ I have no clue why he picked this subject to open talks with me but I believe he must have been talking to my father lately. |
Working on a necklace of beads and a sweater for her grand-daughter |
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The boy likes to enact chest beating of Muharram.
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