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بدھ 29 اکتوبر 2003Wednesday, October 29, 2003
My Dad in Jammu and Kashmir
So the long promised series is here. My Dad sent me his writeup about a month ago. But I have been too lazy and too busy to do much with it.
He wrote it in Microsoft Word. I am going to break it up into reasonable sized chunks and post them over the next few days. I will do only some minimal editing, so it’s all my Dad’s writing.
I thought about how to post this and decided on creating my Dad as an author in the Movable Type system. So the posts will have his byline. But don’t let that fool you, I am the one posting them. I’ll respond to any comments etc. as well.
I’ll add an index to the posts here as I continue to post them.
- Family background and Dad’s birth
- Some reminiscences
- School Life
- The violence starts
- In hiding
- In hiding II
- To Pakistan
You can also access all the posts about Kashmir from the category listing on the right.
Posted by Zack at October 29, 2003 4:52 PM in Kashmir
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