http://www.route-online.com/authors/m-y-alam.html Home of Route Publishing Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:49:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.route-online.com/authors/m-y-alam.html/comment-page-1#comment-203 Stories behind the Stories « Routepublishing's Blog Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:31:42 +0000 http://www.route-online.com/?p=411#comment-203 [...] M Y Alam on Smokes and Dust I’d completed a draft while my father was in hospital for nearly three months. He recovered for a couple of months before relapsing. It’s not that I felt obliged to write anything about or even for him, but the love of the word was something he cultivated in me from an early age, sometimes without even knowing it. Unlike me, the writing was a much deeper part of who he was. Writing kept him alive, I used to think, but like everything else, even that left him. Barely able to hold a pen, he wrote his final poem, one of the most beautiful pieces of verse I’ve ever heard, a few days before he died. [...] [...] M Y Alam on Smokes and Dust I’d completed a draft while my father was in hospital for nearly three months. He recovered for a couple of months before relapsing. It’s not that I felt obliged to write anything about or even for him, but the love of the word was something he cultivated in me from an early age, sometimes without even knowing it. Unlike me, the writing was a much deeper part of who he was. Writing kept him alive, I used to think, but like everything else, even that left him. Barely able to hold a pen, he wrote his final poem, one of the most beautiful pieces of verse I’ve ever heard, a few days before he died. [...]

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