ISBN: 9789381607091    Publisher: Om Books International Year of publishing: 2012     Format:  Hardcover No of Pages: 275        Language: English

Never never never. The two mothers do. Abba, father, was instructed by ma with steely resolve, never ever to see the boy. He attempted to; it would have been abnormal if he hadn't. He was humiliated. Like those countless treaties between India and Pakistan - ineffectual. Maybe abba is dead now, maybe he's a lech with a merry-go-round of a family and mistresses in Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Wherever a bad. Who cares.' Bravely personal with quantum leaps into the imagination, Two Mothers and Other Stories by film critic, scriptwriter, playwright and director, Khalid Mohamed, explores a variety of themes ranging from familial bonds, the lingering Indian royalty, and media stratagems to Mumbai's fast-vanishing Zoroastrian Irani cafes and the bold new world of website sexual relationships. Unfailingly entertaining, his first collection of stories presents what it is like to be immersed in life with its inexhaustible twists, shocks and surprises.
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