Five Lives - One Day in Bahrain

Five Lives - One day in Bahrain'Five Lives - One day in Bahrain' is set in the year 2007, but it's a story that could apply to almost any time. It traces the lives of five very different people, a housemaid from Sri Lanka; a municipal garbage truck driver from India; a Filipina hairdresser and beauty salon manager; a British banker, and a young Bahraini man.The five prayer times that Muslims observe are used to punctuate the different periods in the day and the story's action. Through the course of the day, we learn of the individuals' lives and hopes until a point when they are all brought together and their lives intertwine.Who connects with whom? Discover unsung heroes. This is an uplifting story that celebrates ordinary people in extraordinary ways. An advertising copywriter for 'what feels like a hundred years', Rohini, who was born and grew up in India, considers Bahrain, Halifax, Nova Scotia and most recently, Port Coquitlam BC, Canada home. She has written ad copy for films, radio, and print, in India, Bahrain and Canada. She wrote two books that were commissioned assignments as part of her professional work. Her articles have been published in The Statesman, Calcutta, India; The Globe and Mail, Canada and The Halifax Chronicle Herald, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her writing has also appeared in magazines and papers in Bahrain including, the GDN, Daily Tribune, and Sabaya magazine.She occasionally edits and manages a blog 'Home The Clock Struck One' (http://dlip.wordpress.com) for her brother who had a stroke in 2007. Her blog of personal writing and interests can be found here: https://fictionpals.wordpress.com.She was an active member and until recently, Director of the Bahrain Writers' Circle. In this role she successfully planned, organised, and launched the following annual events: Colours of Life Poetry Festival (2015 – 2019) and Confluence – where words & images meet an exhibition of art and writing (2018 -2020). She is also an active member of the Sri-City Wordsmiths in Canada, where she organises the social meetings every other month.Three of her books and stories were published through Ex-L-Ence an independent publisher in the UK (whoclosed down after Covid-19). These are Corpoetry, a collection of light-hearted verse satirising corporate life as seen from the point of view of mid-level office workers; Desert Flower under the name Zohra Saeed is a short romantic story based in 1930's Bahrain and Five Lives One Day in Bahrain is set in Bahrain 2007. In 2021, she released Twelve Roses For Love a slim collection of a dozen short stories celebrating love in many forms. Available on Amazon. She also has a short story published in The Missouri Review (digital, audio and print).Her poetry has been featured in online and print publications including Dilliwali (Publisher Busra Alvi Razzak), Quesadilla & Other Adventures (2019), The Society of Classical Poets' both online and in their print Journals VII & VIII, her rhyming riddle poem placed 7th out of 177 entries in their Rhyming Riddle Contest 2018. A short story was shortlisted in The Atlantis Short Story Contest (2014) later published by Expanded Horizons, (2018). A CNF entry was longliste...