8 | June• 2018
Prisoner and the Guard’ (April)
hasgivenmeanewperspective;if
prisoners are given due attention
andfacilitiesmadeavailable,they
canhaveachancetorewritetheir
stories. hey would have something
toaspireto.Inmanypartsof
theworld,prisonersaretreated
inhumanely,butitwouldbea
beautiful world if everybody could
live knowing what they are born for.
ZULFIQAR ALI
ALongAcquaintance
Anunabashedfan,Iremember
exactlywhereandwhenIpickedup
myirstcopyoftheReader’sDigest
magazine.Itwasmorethan50years
ago, at a second-hand bookshop in
theOldCityofJerusalem.Itwasmost
deinitelyaluckychanceencounter.
heshop,outsidetheCathedralof
theHolySepulchre,wasrunbya
Muslim shoemaker, who cobbled
leather and purveyed literature at the
same time. ARTHUR HAGOPIAN
heChildasTeacher
IwastouchedasIreadthrough
WendyChiapparo’s‘ManyHands
MakeLightWork’(MyStory,March).
As the story shows, there is no
doubtthatwecontinuetolearn
till we reach the grave. Sometimes
it’s our young children that teach,
enlighten, enrich and even correct
us of our follies with their innocent
comments and behaviour.
FIONA WALTAIR
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