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American Letters

Herawati Latip
1941
Barnard College, New York, NY (Original Language: English)

Across the Pacific August 24. (pg. 19): How queer that after having been two years in Japan, I finally met the right girlfriend on the boat bringing us to America. I just met her tonight. She is Japanese, not that pale white woman face, but she is just like any other modern girl. Modern in …

Poems and Letters

Ziya Gökalp
1918
Turkey (Original Language: Turkish)

POEMS (1918)   Language For us Turkish is a beautiful tongue, Another tongue, is like night to us. Istanbul speech is The purest, most refined for us.   In language the word everyone knows Is considered genuine The word whose meaning can be understood Without a glance at the dictionary.   We don’t invent artificial …

Some Reminiscences of Kashmir

Atiya Fyzee
1906
London, England

A journey from Bombay to Kashmir via Ahmadabad, Jaipur, Agra, Delhi, Amritsar, and Lahore affords, especially to a Purdahnasheen, all the new experiences that she may wish, and reveals many of India’s varied interests, ancient and modern. Among the latter, I may mention that a Jaipuri lady lavished upon me the utmost commiseration because she …

Yali

Atiya Fyzee
1898
Janjira, India (Original Language: English)

EXTRACT FROM YALI AKHBAR (1898) 9th May [18]98 “Yali”   First of all I will beg the reader’s pardon, especially dear ma’s (as she prefers Urdu) for writing in English. I tried in Hindustani but the “kulum” proved a complete failure. I just want to give a brief account of our never-to-be forgotten voyage from …