Manohar Asija
2016
1.It is the real life story of the author. He has tried his best to recall the oldest happening That he could from the memoirs of his life; now when he has already completed over eight decades of his life’s journey. His narration commences with the episode of a situation that he, `an infant around 3 years`. Time and again, he was compelling through his gestures his lactating mother to let him suck her breasts for milk. As she was busy in chat with the neighbouring ladies, the mother, as usual, had readied herself to place her one nipple into his mouth; when one of her friends participating in the chat, happen to ejaculate, “How long will you let him have his own way, ignoring your own health, particularly when you have already fed on your breasts the ten babies of your own ?” Even today, he cherishes the memory of his childhood, particulary the couple of months he spent in the neighbouring district named Bannu; and studied in a co-educational missionary school. In fact, he has not forgotten the momentary verbal duel with a female classmate who had spontaneously `issued in his honour` the title Jhalla` when he had mistaken her to be a boy, keeping in mind her boyish dress and hair-cut; during his studies in the primary section of that High School. He was in the 11th year of his life, when his mother made her exit from this mortal world; consequently he came under the charge of his sister, just elder to him less than 3 years in age. However, the time was passing on more or less smoothlly , till the communal riots broke out in the town, in the wake of the movement for the creation of Pakistan. By then, his sister had wedded and was living with her matrimonial family, in the same town. The city was set ablaze by the mischievous elements and this 12-13 year old boy was handed over to his paternal aunt (father’s lone sister), who brought him with self and four kids of hers, when her relatives could prepare to bring with them this widowed aunt of his with all the paraphern
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