Naba
“It’s really hot over here. I will keep my first roza on returning home from my nani’s place after summer vacations.”
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Ammar
“I started observing fasts this year. It’s my fourth one today.”
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Ibrahim
“It’s all Abba’s fault. He says that I am not old enough, and it isn’t Farz on me yet. When I’m 10 years old, I will keep my first roza.”
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Safina
“Yesterday was the toughest roza. Felt as if all the preceding rozas had added themselves into a single one. No no, not because of the heat. The domestic help went absent.”
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Fakhra
“Ammi called over one of our phuphis. She said, come over, and help me prepare Iftar. Normally, everyone in the mohalla gets invited over to attend Iftar when it is a child’s roza-kushai. But being constantly wound-up was Ammi’s nature — ‘bahut ulajhti theen woh’ — so she couldn’t tolerate too many people around the house for…
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Shahida
Ramadan arrived in a few months on reaching there after our marriage. It was the first time that I was on my own, and it used to be lonely during the day. The wind howled all the time, and I cried remembering everybody who was back home at that time and how it might have been there….
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Reshma
“I was a lot younger then, maybe around eight years old. In the afternoon, Ammi and Appi asked me to drink water and break my fast. They felt that I was too young to keep a full day’s fast, and said it was okay if I couldn’t complete it. But I didn’t. It wasn’t…