So you’re not a superhero. You get frustrated when you mix up verb tenses. You can’t cross the street without saying a small prayer. You’re not conventionally attractive, by American or Bengali standards. You stall in your writing – and your reading and your half-made plans. You take off your kameez one shoulder at a […]
Passionate about ordinary things, like how ingredients become food – that detail was included in the winning story told at the Moth event I attended last week. The detail was in reference to the storyteller’s friend (the subject of their piece), and I felt a kinship because of that choice; I too am passionate about […]
I want to lighten it up a little as we enter this week. I’ve been writing on heavy topics (both on the blog and in my private writing) because it’s better to let them out than to keep them rattling around in my head. However, I think we all deserve a good diet of sweet […]
– A room with pen and paper – A good meal shared with family and friends (my current favorite is pullao with goat curry and potatoes; I can eat it all. day. long.) – Cuddling up and talking for hours with someone you care about – Watching your niece grow up to be taller […]
How does one feel sadness properly? This week opens for me with a very recent death and a very raw period of mourning. As much as I believe that death is a natural inevitable process, it still shakes you to the core when it comes close. It’s almost enough to make me want to write […]
Happy Thanksgiving! Now that you’ve getting a hefty dose of tryptophan and starches in your diet (and more than a small serving of my counternarrative argument from yesterday’s post), I want to introduce some levity into the idea of Thanksgiving. I think it’s a great holiday because it highlights – however strangely – the need […]