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My friend Iskandar, the great potter
By Ismail Kassim
Long have I heard of this talented potter and dreamt of meeting him, but it was not till years later when our paths crossed on the Road to Tehran that I finally caught up with him, and discover the man behind the craft.
Act 1: early 1960s, the back room of 62 Monk’s Hill Terrace
As a trainee- level teacher, I discovered Omar Khayyam and through his delightful quatrains was introduced, aside from the delights of the grapes, to the world of the potter and his pots of clay.
In Gedungku, memories are made of this
By Ismail Kassim
I just met a girl named Hidayah Amin, or Cik Idah in short, who possesses the three Ps -- passionate, persistent and plucky or rather pushy, depending on one’s frame of mind -- in great abundance.
