Sara tells me that I am too soft spoken. Then she tells me I am too boring because unlike how most girls are supposed to be( rather how they are stereotyped to be), I dont like shopping. When I tell her that I like historical places, the very reason I am in love with Delhi, she gives me a look of a disheartened young adult. Noorjahan, who is in her 11th standard, spending part of her time at the NGO helping small kids out with their lessons, hugs me every time we meet. And Mehwish curiously looks at my smile and asks me if I can see anything when I smile because my eyes narrow down too much when I do. One of the major reasons why I, of all the NGOs that I was given the opportunity to choose, chose Hope over the others was because it was located in an area that is one of the oldest continuously inhabited human settlements in the world. Nizamuddin basti developed around the dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin and there are a million stories written on top of each other, merged into this be
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