Tag: educating women

  • Amna Channie

    A Year in Futility (Hope Estate)

    EPISODE 3 : The Artful Dodgers You recall Pa from across the dam? Well, Pa turned out to be my wasta (my “know-somebody-inside”). It came about that on this particular Saturday morning, my three friends and I were assigned to go to the canals to chop away 100 years of muck. I saw Pa under […]

  • Amna Channie

    A Year in Futility (Hope Estate)

    EPISODE 2 : A SNAKE IN JODHPURS Another Saturday, another week-end to be spent in drudgery. We had been told that the great leader and his cohort would be visiting the estate and preparations needed to be made. The place needed to be cleaned, the barracks tidied, the yard swept, and students had to be […]

  • Amna Channie

    A Year in Futility (Hope Estate)

    EPISODE 1 It has come upon me that I must  write about the momentous events of my life that have brought me to this, the 81st year of my life.  A few of them span a single year and the events that I am about to describe are tied to a single goal and so might […]