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Volume 2, No. 2 - July 2002 |
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"I Just Watched" Anu Munshi The sweet taste of nostalgia left me breathless. I reckon it was for a moment, but eternal. It slid past the chinar trees, the minarets, even the icy tunnel. And there I was, just eleven years old. A house was on fire, our neighbor’s house. The little Muslim children were running over with “kavlis” and gathering water to throw at the fire. It was leaking from the roof and drops fell on my body. Why amongst all this did I feel a calm sensation? I just watched. Thorns went
ripping through my grandmother’s feet, or was it her heart? I handed my ten-day-old sister to
Nadia. I watched families being torn apart,
women being widowed, daughter’s committing suicide and men without jobs.
[Ms. Anu Munshi is an ethnically cleansed Kashmiri Hindu refugee from Kashmir, India and currently lives in Akron, Ohio.] |
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