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SINGER, MODEL, ACTRESS, DANCER- THE ALL IN ONE TALENT CASSIE

Cassandra Elizabeth Ventura or Cassie as we all know her is a complete powerhouse when it comes to talent and skill. Singing, modeling, acting, dancing- you name it she does it! But all this talent did not come to her by mere luck or God’s grace. Cassie is one super star who has prepared for […]

FROM LOCAL RAP BATTLES TO INTERNET SUPER STARDOM-BIG SEAN’S JOURNEY TO FAME

The recipe of success is four parts hard work and one part sheer luck! This is one statement that can completely summarize the rise of one hip hop mega star to fame the likes of which were never seen before! And that hip hop artist is Big Sean. Born as Sean Michael Anderson in Santa […]

My mother was a teacher too

IT WENT ON LIKE THAT for a few weeks. I’d wait until the general went for a stroll, then I’d walk past the Taheris?stand. If Khanum Taheri was there, she’d offer me tea and a kolcha and we’d chat about Kabul in the old days, the people we knew, her arthritis. Undoubtedly, she had noticed […]

Out of the corner of my eye

I’d asked Baba once why General Taheri’s daughter hadn’t married yet. No suitors, Baba said. No suitable suitors, he amended. But he wouldn’t say more–Baba knew how lethal idle talk could prove to a young woman’s prospects of marrying well. Afghan men, especially those from reputable families, were fickle creatures. A whisper here, an insinuation […]

I sensed an unease in her now

I immediately dismissed both scenarios as absurd. Fathers and sons could talk freely about women. But no Afghan girl–no decent and mohtaram Afghan girl, at least–queried her father about a young man. And no father, especially a Pashtun with nang and namoos, would discuss a mojarad with his daughter, not unless the fellow in question […]