Abdul Raouf

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Date a Girl Who Likes Biryani
(Because I was fed up of the exhortations to date girls who read, write, travel, does handstands while riding a horse, etc.) Date a girl who likes Biryani. Date a girl who doesn't need to look at the menu to know what she wants. She says no to dessert every day because she has no ... Continue readin...
Posted on 5 May 2013 | 12:42 am
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Death of a Revolutionary
Story I wrote for the Saarang Writing Awards 2011 - Facebook Flash Fiction Competition. The story had to fit in 10 lines and the prompt was, 'When you have nothing left to burn, you have to set fire to yourself'. The revolution had failed. He would never live to see the dawn when his people ... Cont...
Posted on 8 December 2011 | 2:12 am
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Where have all the sperms gone?
A question to which most people reading this will answer 'Down the drain', I suppose. But no, it's not the masturbatory habits of the Indian male that elicits this lament from me, but an increasing number of alarming news articles which gives one the impression that the human sperm is an endangered...
Posted on 2 December 2011 | 2:51 am
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