In summer 2018, writer Sorayya Khan invited me to submit new work to Desi Writer’s Lounge’s latest Papercuts issue, Nomad. The online publication was launched on December 31, 2018,...
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19 Apr, 2018
stories all around us…
19 Apr, 2018
General Manager Mahbubul Alam, Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh (photo from my 2013 Bangladesh visit and interview) Yesterday, I returned to the printer cartridge store where I had purchased toner...
Read more23 Mar, 2018
taking a break…
23 Mar, 2018
This week, our spring break, René, Minal, and I boarded a flight to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, which is just two hours away from Los Angeles. When we landed in...
Read more06 Mar, 2018
revisiting the border…
06 Mar, 2018
the Texas-Mexico fence at Old Hidalgo Pumphouse Last week, I dipped into the Rio Grande Valley for 24-hours to participate in an arts and literature festival. The morning after...
Read more27 Apr, 2017
finding refuge in a garden…
27 Apr, 2017
foliage at the The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens’ front entrance This week, I camped out at Huntington Garden’s café to complete a short story. To...
Read more12 Feb, 2017
the invasion of plastic…
12 Feb, 2017
Today, before heading out to Karachi Literature Festival at the Beach Luxury Hotel, filmmaker Tehmina Ahmed and I carve out time to visit Khajoor Bazaar. Located in old Karachi,...
Read more07 Feb, 2017
vacant airplane…
07 Feb, 2017
Empty airplane seats on my 16-hour journey from LAX to KHI, where I’m heading for just six days to participate in the annual Karachi Literature Festival, which will attract...
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the big day…
04 Feb, 2017
author Kate DiCamillo with Minal Ever since Minal learns that she won first place in the Scholastic Reader’s Raymie Nightingale contest, she has been waiting for young adult author...
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VBB’s upcoming publication…
03 Feb, 2017
Borderlines Volume Two; image by Veer Munshi, cover design by Angela Martinez Now more than ever it’s important to push past rising walls. In about a month, Voices Breaking...
Read more07 Dec, 2016
an award for minal…
07 Dec, 2016
At ten thirty this morning, I receive an email from Minal’s English teacher with a subject line: We WON THE GRAND PRIZE!!!!!!!!!!! Over the course of the day, details...
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