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Travel stories
Kaushal Oza loves books, window seats, coffees, piano lessons, treks, and underwater dives and has won the 2017 World Nomads Travel Writing Scholarship. The roses of Sarajevo is a travel story in which Kaushal Oza himself visits Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina to attend the Sarajevo Film festival which was first held when the city was under siege. There he visits a coffee shop in the narrow lanes of Baščaršija , the Ottoman part of the old town. In the process of walking around like a tourist he found one of the roads where the sign says that east meets the west on that spot. There he meets a elderly gentleman named Emir Ademović who corrects the pronunciation of the order which Kaushal Oza gives and with this they enter into a conversation which takes him through the culture and tales of the city. He takes a visit with Emir to come across the roses of Sarajevo while which he encounters the background of a public park which is now lined with thousands of marble tombstones speaking out the attack by the Serbs through the hills during the Bosnian war. Climbing up the yellow fortress he could see the neighboring towns of Sarajevo and also similar graveyard that only grew bigger. In the ending of this read, he brings out the festival of Ramadan which is being celebrated in the old towns buzz and the cannons fired for the war are now only used to celebrate the festival of Iftar.