Amina Parakkal is a Class VI dropout, a very ordinary homemaker from Karasseri in rural Kozhikode. Ms. Amina began her diaries while recuperating from cancer and other illnesses around 2001. No one guessed that our mother had penned them,” said Ajmal Hadi, Ms. Amina’s younger son. Ms. Amina began writing to pass the time and to address issues with her …
Booker prize-winning author Salman Rushdie said that he still has “crazy dreams” about the knife attack that he endured in New York, which left him blind in one eye. Speaking to the BBC, Salman Rushdie said he was in "two minds" about whether to face his alleged attacker or not. I have crazy dreams," the novelist said, adding, “If he …