Stories from the past

[Reha]

Re: Stories from the past

@KiteRunner

My dad was only a child but he remembers Fatima Jinnah coming to their house in white clothes and a white stretch limo, he sits there describing it as if he can see it, it’s quite sweet.
My nanee has horrific stories, too horrific to reiterate, because they weren’t as well off and couldn’t afford a plane ticket.
I agree with Reha, it’s so far fetched from our lives today and it sounds beautiful and incredible but I cannot relate. I just listen and it’s as if you’re watching a film or hearing a fairytale, another world entirely.
My dad tells us incredible stories from my dadee’s time, she had a very different upbringing and lived in an old palace in Bangalore which I’d love to visit and my daddaa abbu was friends with Dilip Kumar and was in with the bollywood crowd and British army so although entirely different to my nanee’s stories they’re still incredible and just from another world entirely.

Yeah, those were troubled times…so much bloodshed and so many lives lost. I heard some tragic tales as well.

And you’re right…I always felt like I was watching a movie when I heard her talking. She knew a different childhood completely.