Fiction

Eidgah by Premchand

A full thirty days after Ramadan comes Eid. How wonderful and beautiful is the morning of Eid! The trees look greener, the field more festive, the sky has a lovely pink glow. Look at the sun! It comes up brighter and more dazzling than before to wish the world a very happy Eid. The village is agog with excitement. Everyone is up early to go to the Eidgah mosque.

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Binti Shabari

After Lakhai took a piece, Binti slowly began eating. Between bites she asked, “Why do you bring me things—this and that—every day?”

“Don’t you know?”Lakhai beamed and took her hand in his. “Your father said it himself. He’ll marry you to me.”

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At the Road Junction

this man, virtually homeless and disowned by family, has to find ways of surviving: he sleeps on the pavement, under a makeshift shelter of cardboard and tarpaulin; goes for the meals in a run-down hotel, twenty minutes away, along the snaking highway but this old greying man--- with broken spectacles and dirt-encrusted old shirt and crumpled pyjama and broken irregular teeth and eyes that are blank...

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