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In the end, we have no choice, The grave is our sanctuary, Moving within us, A reassertion of an exile Pushing beyond itself. I am at school, An almost presence,[…]
Lahore native Kamil Ahsan moved to Chicago for graduate school in 2012. A freelance journalist, Ahsan holds a Ph.D. in developmental biology, a master’s degree in history of science, is[…]
Caravan to Cox’s Bazaar We run in the belly of the snake I hold her hand suck her swollen teat And jump barbed wire with bones that shake On shards[…]
“We think our hearts break only from endings — the love gone, the rooms empty, the future unhappening as we stand ready to step into it — but what about[…]
On February 6, 2015, Sureshbhai Patel, visiting his son’s home in Madison, Alabama, was beaten by police officer Eric Parker. Parker was answering a call from “concerned” neighbor who felt[…]
Sandwiched between whiteness and blackness, being brown in the U.S. has always been uncomfortable. During the early 1900s, the American judiciary waffled back-and-forth on the racial classifications of Indian Americans.[…]
We Are Kin Remembrance. On the 14th of August, 1947 Pakistan was born. On the 15th of August, 1947 India was “independent.” The British called it transfer[…]
Latha Viswanathan is the Houston-based author of the short story collection Lingering Tide (2011), and the novel Temples (2018). In my review of Lingering Tide, I said Viswanathan was fearsomely[…]
Fashion · Literature · Politics · Pop Culture
How the drape holds meaning and memory for the desi mind, body, and soul. A series of interview-vignettes, showcasing uber serious sari love, brought out via passion, history, politics, through[…]
The word ‘Cliffhanger’ might well have entered the cinematic lexicon sometime toward end-1913, when early motion picture maker William Selig had a brainwave. His planned 13-part film-serial would appear simultaneously[…]
