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Mother’s Sacrifice My mom only had one eye. I hated her… she was such an embarrassment. My mom ran a small shop at a flea market. She collected little weeds and such to sell… anything for the money we needed she was such an embarrassment. There was this one day during elementary school. I remember that it was field day, and my mom came. I was so embarrassed. How could she do this to me? I threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school… “Your mom only has one eye?!” and they taunted me. I wished that my mom would just disappear from this world so I said to my mom, “Mom, why don’t you have the other eye?! You’re only going to make me a laughingstock. Why don’t you just die?” My mom did not respond. I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, it felt good to think that I had said what I’d wanted to say all this time. Maybe it was because my mom hadn’t punished me, but I didn’t think that I had hurt her feelings very badly. That night… I woke up, and went to...

The Crocodile And The Monkey or The Unfaithful Friend There was a large berry tree on the bank of a river. On this tree lived a monkey called Rhesa. He was a clever and good hearted monkey. He offered berries to all the animals and birds who came to the river to quench their thirst. In the river, there lived a crocodile named Magar. He lived with his wife in a cave at the bottom of the river. One day Magar the crocodile came to the river bank to catch his prey. It was a hot and sunny day and Magar had not caught any thing the whole day. Tired and hot, he dragged himself to the shade of the berry tree for some rest. He had hardly closed his eyes when he heard somebody calling out to him. "Hello friend. I am up here." Magar looked up to find Rhesa the monkey smiling down at him. The monkey plucked a handful of juicy berries and threw them down to Magar. "Eat these. They will quench your thirst." "Thank you," said Magar and ate the delicious berries. F...

The Great Goonga Pehlwan (Rustam-e-Hind) The Great Feroz Deen urf “Goonga Pehlwan” (dumb and mute wrestler) Rustam-e Hind was the greatest wrestler ever produced by the soil of Sialkot. He was born in a village named Jharan, District Sialkot. Goonga Pehlawan was a tall rock strong man above six feet (as told by my late father Chaudhry Munawwar Nasrullah Khan he met him along with his “GURZ” {GURZ is a trophy and a great matter of pride for any Pehlawan}in Daska in his childhood). The whole world of desi kushti was shocked when the famous Wrestler and Champion Imam Buksh of those times (who was the younger brother of great and legendary Gama Pehlawan) was defeated by Goonga Pehlawan, it was an upset and the news was spread in the whole subcontinent like a jungle fire. At that time Goonga was very young and the existing Champion Imam Buksh was was a mature strong Pehlawan with lot of strength and experience and at the peak of his career and was considered a solid rock which couldn’t ...