The sun had not yet risen, while the son learned his father cut firewood and sell it at the bazaar.
He missed people milling in and out of his house, missed walking down the bustling aisles of Shor Bazaar and greeting people who knew him and his father, knew his grandfather, people who shared ancestors with him, whose pasts intertwined with his.
I looked out my bedroom window and waited until Ali and Hassan went grocery shopping to the bazaar, pushing the empty wheelbarrows in front of them.
Ran back to the all but deserted bazaar.
For the next few minutes, I scoured the bazaar in vain.
The bazaar was emptying quickly, the merchants finishing up their haggling for the day.
"I saw him running toward the bazaar awhile ago.
We went to the bazaar and bought bamboo, glue, string, and paper.
Hassan stayed Home and helped Ali with the day's chores: hand-washing dirty clothes and hanging them to dry in the yard, sweeping the floors, buying fresh "naan" from the bazaar, marinating meat for dinner, watering the lawn.
I remember one day, when I was eight, Ali was taking me to the bazaar to buy some "naan".
If you hold up a person nowadays in a bazaar or a Turkish bath or a side street, and inquire into his private and personal affairs, the police court'll get you.
With a wave of his hand he would speak of a certain bazaar in Hyderabad.
On every entrance the flag of France is displayed; around the world's bazaar wave the flags of all nations.
