
The Making And Remaking Of Afghanistan
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Sohrab and Sota - A Saddest Tale of the Shahnama
Sohrab is a grown man, and all he knows of his father is his name, dostam. Suhrab has a growing suspicion that his father, the great warrior, dostm, is on the other side. And hoping to at last meet him, suhrab crosses into enemy territory and demands to meet rostam. None answer the challenge, except one, rostan. He comes charging in and begins to fight sota, neither realizing that the blood they seek to spill is the same blood coursing through their own veins. As he lays dying, sohrab cries out, my father will draw thee forth from thy hiding place and avenge my death
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