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A brief thought on ‘The Kite Runner’

I read this novel years ago and I confess, at that time, It was my best read for some time. I enjoyed this book. Amir the narrator of the novel has narrated it beautifully. The sense of insecurity in the father-son relation has been woven nicely and the sense of redemption and guilt is theContinue reading “A brief thought on ‘The Kite Runner’”

There was a settlement in Kansas, and its name was Butcher’s Crossing!

“You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you’re ready to die, it comes to you—that there’s nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain’t doneContinue reading “There was a settlement in Kansas, and its name was Butcher’s Crossing!”