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Street Child Rembers Legendaries

May 20th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Turbaned Legendary   Looking back is not being weirdo-it is not being crazy. It is cathartic. Allow me the liberty, to say nostalgia is an ‘elixir that heals the hearts’ and soothes the fatigued nerves. It is loveable. Passing through the lanes that cradled us is loveable even today. They resonate with lullabies and sing songs of love, “That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude.” The skyline of my birth burg makes me tizzy and tipsy. If you ask me why, I will fumble for an answer-, it is inexplicable. The shimmering golden spires of the minarets sometimes make me trance and   mysteriously take me on a spiritual voyage and everything around in rapture sings hymns like “whirling Dervishes” of Egypt. On every visit the quartet minarets of Jamia Masjid,   open up for … Read entire article »

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