: ‘Parasite’: Read the story that co-won the Jawad Memorial Prize 2021 for Urdu-to-English translation #IndiaNEWS No one can say if Mahmud really had a worm in his gut but Mahmud was convinced he

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‘Parasite’: Read the story that co-won the Jawad Memorial Prize 2021 for Urdu-to-English translation #IndiaNEWS
No one can say if Mahmud really had a worm in his gut but Mahmud was convinced he did. At first – before speaking to his office friend Umar – no such thought had ever crossed his mind. But now, after listening to Umar’s discussion on the subject, he was certain that a worm did indeed live inside him. A long, healthy, ravenous worm, that devoured everything Mahmud ate. It also became clear to him that since he had always been gaunt and skinny, the worm had been in residence for a long, long time, growing up on Mahmud’s diet – especially spinach. Mahmud relished spinach and often had it cooked at home.He had heard that children who ate mud got worms. After speaking to Umar that day, he called his mother, who confirmed that he did often eat mud as a child. Mahmud was dismayed to hear this, especially because she had no explanation for why she let it happen. She merely said that since many children eat mud, she didn’t think it was something so terrible that she should have run after him to stop him or thrashed him out of the habit. “I wasn’t with you all the time,� she...Read more

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