Another Gulmohar Tree by Aamer Hussein

Author:Aamer Hussein [Aamer Hussein]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

In exile from the domain of his own fiction, Usman now turned from writing stories of social realism to retelling traditional tales from Punjab and Sind with a bitter tinge of political allusion. In the best of these (which set a standard for other writers), a farmer gave his daughter as a bride to a crocodile. She invited her family, one by one, to the crocodile kingdom in the depths of the river. They succumbed to its wealth and riches and decided to stay on. Finally only one was left on land, a youngest son. He went to visit his sister and her crocodile in-laws in the country beneath the water where he found his parents and siblings in residence. They had eaten crocodile bread, and they, too, were gradually metamorphosing into crocodiles.

His former editors couldn’t understand the change in his style, but when he published ‘The Prince of Crocodile Country’ in the country’s most popular children’s magazine his young readers loved it. He continued to dip his bucket into the same well of folklore, though few of his later stories were ever as harsh, and some indulged themselves in a tear or two.

As he grew older, he found that the only effective means to alleviate his sense of existential guilt was to help the deprived, in modest and even surreptitious ways. Rokeya, generous by nature, was aware of her husband’s acts of kindness, and she, too, became adept at saving to give away whatever she could.

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