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The Afghan Girl.

It is said of the Pashtuns that they are at peace only when at war.

I had seen her picture way back, in school. I knew her as The Afghan Girl. I thought she was hauntingly beautiful. And she is. Only, now I know that her beauty haunts because of searing pain that comes with being a refugee.

A shattered and devastated nation finds expression in more than numbers and statistics.

Read how she was lost and found in the debris here.
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obssesor said…
This picture is so mazingly haunting, she looks like a post card of Afganishtan...an endless array of lost chances!
May 10, 2009 at 9:51 AM
sayrem said…
absolutely....it is at once terrible and beautiful..
May 10, 2009 at 7:47 PM
NG said…
thanks for the link... its touching... and the 2 pictures... say a million wordsss
May 11, 2009 at 9:13 AM
sayrem said…
welcum anytime :)
May 11, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Mad Blogger said…
Those eyes do tell a story.. doesnt it? Pain and fear written all over it....
May 11, 2009 at 6:26 PM
sayrem said…
pain, fear, steel and survival.
May 11, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Viji said…
Her eyes say it all....Anger, pain, helplessness, aggression, oppression....Everything!
May 12, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Sam said…
its the eyes which would come back to haunt you...
May 13, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Anonymous said…
I did see the photographer on television as he went back to Afghanistan looking for her. And he finally found her. It was a shock for her when she was discovered again.

Thank you for visiting my blog.
May 14, 2009 at 10:42 PM
sayrem said…
2nd tyme im saying welcum in one post :D
May 14, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Miss_Nobody said…
The Eyes,omg.Thank you for visiting!
May 15, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Madhurjya (Banjo) Banerjee said…
When the picture had first come out, it shook the world. When it came out again years later, it became a collector's item.
May 15, 2009 at 11:04 AM
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