Saturday, 3 July 2021

The Sri Lankan Profession (Novel) : Chapter 19 - Can I lead the funeral prayer, Hazrath?


Tuesday, Morning
Full moon holiday

Mohideen Hajiyar’s dining hall. Mohideen Hajiyar and his wife Ziyana were having their breakfast. Hamdha had left for Colombo.

"I think you still want to take that boy with you, don’t you?", Ziyana asked her Husband.

"Which boy? Taking where?" asked Mohideen Hajiyar.

"You are talking like you have no idea of anything. I am talking about this boy Minhaj. About taking him with you to Saudi Arabia".

Wednesday, 23 June 2021

The Sri Lankan Profession (Novel) - Chapter 18 - The Age Difference


13th Day Since Shibly's arrival in Marudur. 

Saturday, Morning

Shibly couldn’t go back to his village this weekend. The principal had asked him to stay and work. Shibly had agreed. Even the new staff members had decided to stay in Marudur.

Monday, 14 June 2021

The Sri Lankan Profession (Novel) - Chapter 17 - The Business Trip



Friday, Morning, 10.42 am. 

Shakira's phone was ringing. She had just now finished her lectures and was standing in the outside courtyard of the lecture hall.

Saturday, 5 June 2021

The Sri Lankan Profession (Novel) - Chapter 16 : You will pay for this

It was Tuesday evening. In the partly constructed building upstairs of ‘Thajudeen Tea Store’, Minhaj finished his private tutorial class and got ready to leave.

Friday, 28 May 2021

The Sri Lankan Profession (Novel): Chapter 15 - “Cool water for my thirsty heart”


It was a pleasant Saturday afternoon. “Mammy, shall we visit Shakira’s house?” asked Hamdha, her mother. “Her father has been discharged from the hospital”.

Thursday, 20 May 2021

The Sri Lankan Profession (Novel) : Chapter 14 - "We are late, Minhaj".


Thursday night at Mohideen Hajiyar’s house.

Hamdha was trying to concentrate on her textbook, “the introduction to social psychology” by a professor of psychology.

Thursday, 13 May 2021

The Sri Lankan Profession (Novel) : Chapter 13 : Your brother doesn’t deserve her


It was afternoon. The shadows were growing. Asr, the afternoon prayer had already been performed. After raining for hours, the yellow evening sunlight was awesome.  

Sunday, 9 May 2021

The Sri Lankan Profession (The Novel)- Chapter 12 - What could she possibly be doing right now?



It was the dawn on Wednesday.

Shibly prayed his dawn prayer in Akbar mosque. After the prayer, he stayed for some time at the mosque, reciting the Quran.

Saturday, 1 May 2021

The Sri Lankan Profession (Novel) - Chapter-11 : You couldn't guess who I am, right?



It was almost 9.30 pm at night.

The atmosphere was too silent. Not a comfortable silent. A frightening silence. More silent than Marudur. Even the sounds of little insects were entirely audible.

Wednesday, 28 April 2021

The Sri Lankan Profession (Novel): Chapter 10: The graveyard


It was Akbar mosque neighbourhood. Shibly was standing outside Akbar mosque.

The area looked rich. The atmosphere was pleasant with the eye-catching emerald fields and greenwood.

Shibly was standing confused for a few more minutes, even after Hamzi left.