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21/01/202422/01/2024

Read a news item that made me grumpy: Nur Khan airbase wants action against ‘pigeon cages’ in vicinity.

The basant that I grew up with is gone, the mehfils died long before I was born, and now they want to shut down another graceful urban past-time, and all for a bunch of military planes and VVIP helicopters. Bah.

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