The obscure saga of a mediocre II

In the second part of his delightful memoir, journalist Khaled Ahmad recalls his years at GC as a student, his "atrocious manhandling of the English idiom," his economics teacher Shoaib Hashmi being "subjected to rehearsed harassment in class" by the likes of Tariq Ali and Salmaan Taseer; envying the "genius of my cousin Shahid Javed Burki," and turning into a big, albeit "unguided," reader of books