Between India And Pakistan...

More from Aatish Taseer, a fascinating piece describing his journey, in search of his father and his Pakistani roots, to rural Sindh, befriending a mysterious landlord who drank heavily and brandished an AK-47:

My parents met in Delhi in March 1980. My Pakistani father was in India promoting a book he had written on his political mentor, the Pakistani leader, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. My mother, a young Indian journalist, was sent to interview him.

Their affair began that evening. My father took my mother’s number, they had dinner at a Chinese restaurant and for a little over a week they disappeared together.

My parents met at a time when they had both become politically involved in their respective countries. The state of emergency that Mrs Gandhi declared in 1975 had come and gone—she had returned to power and the terrorism in Punjab that would take her life was about to begin.

More here

Hat tip: Omar Ali

Sundeep Dougal 31 March 2009

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More from Aatish Taseer, a fascinating piece describing his journey, in search of his father and his Pakistani roots, to rural Sindh, befriending a mysterious landlord who drank heavily and brandished an AK-47:

My parents met in Delhi in March 1980. My Pakistani father was in India promoting a book he had written on his political mentor, the Pakistani leader, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. My mother, a young Indian journalist, was sent to interview him.

Their affair began that evening. My father took my mother’s number, they had dinner at a Chinese restaurant and for a little over a week they disappeared together.

My parents met at a time when they had both become politically involved in their respective countries. The state of emergency that Mrs Gandhi declared in 1975 had come and gone—she had returned to power and the terrorism in Punjab that would take her life was about to begin.

More here

Hat tip: Omar Ali

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