Book Sham-e-Raah : Where Have You Left

Original in Urdu

Translation in English

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About the author

Owais
Owais was always fond of the written word, perhaps as a result of his upbringing as a single child by a single mother. Words were his only *real*friends; he wrote his first short-stories before he had his first orgasm. His first poems were written when he started working as a trainee engineer in Mumbai, celebrating his (unrequited and unconsummated) love for a cute office-boy. He returned to serious wordsmithery only after he managed to create his retirement corpus, and quit high-flying in the corporate world in the year 2008. In between, apart from gay activism, he did manage to find time to write a few poems, short-stories and essays; which were published in magazines, in book-form as well as on-line. Based in Bhopal, and pushing 47, he now gives Life Coaching, and creates what he calls TextMovies, which he publishes online. Some of his writing can also be read on his blog (faqirana.blogspot.com). He maintains only one profile on-line: www.linkedin.com/in/indiakhan.

About the translator

Hanif Sheikh

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