Stay, Daughter

We did not stay in our houses. Not in the way our grandmothers had, or our mothers. We went out a little more and veiled ourselves a little less. Some of us longed for more learning and dreamed about leaving home to get it. The elders shook their heads and cautioned: too much education could ruin a girl''s future.To be a Muslim girl in the Sri Lanka of the 50s and 60s was to have to stay inside on...