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Saeed Akhtar Mirza

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in Mumbai, India

June 30, 1943

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Average rating: 4.0 · 310 ratings · 45 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Ammi: Letter to a Democratic Mother 4.11 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memory in the Age of Amnesia: And other essays, tales, conversations, soliloquies and unsolicited advice 3.82 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monk, the Moor and Moses Ben Jalloun 4.04 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“…in the twentieth century
grief lasts at most a year.’

I have used this quote from the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet as a prelude to a small tale before I go on to the War in iraq. The reason I chose to use this quote is because I wonder how long grief lasts in the twenty-first century. Is it now a month? Two weeks? Or just enough time for the television cameras to record it and then it’s over? I don’t know.”
― Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Ammi: Letter to a Democratic Mother

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“This brings me back to Kemal Mustapha or Atatürk. I have a question to ask him: Did he try too hard to erase history and memory? There is another question too that needs to be asked: What is modernity and which countries or people define it? The reason I have posed this question is because the future of so many countries depends on the answers.”
― Saeed Mirza, Ammi: Letter to a Democratic Mother

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“Later, as he lay in bed, Nusrat recalled the phrase used by Jamal Khan: ‘a long-distance travelling partner.’ He liked it. It came from a Persian couplet that measured the love between a man and a woman to distances travelled together. Love was not the beginning of a journey but the consequences of one. It grew and flourished along the way. If there was no journey travelled, there was no love.”
― Saeed Mirza, Ammi: Letter to a Democratic Mother

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