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Apr 3, 2023·edited Apr 3, 2023Liked by Hanif Kureishi

I feel so honoured and moved. In 1988, I worked as a film projectionist at Hampshire college and was screening My Beautiful Laundrette when Hanif walked into the booth in a biker jacket, sipping a beer. I have watched and read everything I could of his since. I read these posts at times with a heavy heart, but always marveling at how he keeps the discourse of writing and living ticking as he recovers. Thank you for keeping dreams alive, this forum means a lot to us – these posts and your constant encouragement. Congrats to all contributors and readers – my comrades.

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Apr 2, 2023Liked by Hanif Kureishi

I read the first one and it was so breathtaking that I had to pause. Will read the others too, in good time. What a punch in the sternum that one is, though. Not a surprising choice. It is indeed a winner - out of a time of tragedy comes brilliant light.

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Apr 2, 2023Liked by Hanif Kureishi

Oh, sheesh, the other two stories are beautiful too- so raw and real and rhythmic and fine. Heartbreaking. So good for now, even if they describe a then. I'm simply blown away. Thank you. And thank you, Mr Kureishi for caring enough to do this for us- you are definitely suffering, staving off giving up. Courageous in a way that most of us haven't had to prove. Yet. We may have to at the end of our lives whenever they happen, but to do it in the middle, when you've got years to go, deserves total recognition. Something so solitary about it, in that machine you may risk entering. In your new room, and then standing up with help from the staff and a hoisting device. We salute you. We are you. We try to stand with you. God bless us all.

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Brilliant stories

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Eggs. That is the one. Wow.

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Love 'Boyfriend's Beaten to a Pulp'. Big Congratulations 🙏

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Apr 3, 2023·edited Apr 3, 2023

Excellent stories, all three of them. The subject, the rhythm, the language. And for me, all of them carry a certain energy, a glimpse of hope. I tip my hat to the new evolution.

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Wonderful stories. Eggs made me cry. Thank you to the writers and to you for bringing them to us.

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Beautiful Sandeep and all.

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congratulations!!!

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Many congratulations! Great stories and all unique perspectives.

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Congratulations. Each story was completely immersive, gripping and profoundly observant of the crux of living.

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Congratulations!

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Just --- WOW. How inspiring to know the caliber of writers has not diminished in this digital, virtual age. Thanks Hanif and family for taking on the task of reading all the entries. I know it was no mean feat. It encourages me to dig and think deeper in my own work.

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Beautiful Sandeep and all.

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