Bookshelf with notebooks and small clay elephant. *** She made homes out of old boxes and bleached out pillowcases. She made homes out of too-heavy earrings that dragged down her ears. She made homes out of imperfect things. She made them out of whatever was convenient. Even now, I wouldn’t even know what to […]
It’s little late for Mother’s Day, but I’ve collected some of my scattered thoughts about the concept of ‘mothering’, inspired by a Tweet that me and my friend Amanda Zhang put together. I have been thinking about how complicated Mother’s Day is as a holiday. Some of us were not raised by our mothers or […]
Hey all! Remember when I said I was doing a reading? Well, the reading happened last Saturday and it was amazing. I was so honored to be amongst such passionate folks — writers, listeners, and organizers — that cared about disrupting stereotypic narratives of Bengali life and art. It was also amazing to be in […]
Here is a quick-writing experiment I did with describing scenery through a child’s perspective. The houses turned to tiny islands whenever it was rainy season. They flooded the fields, fortified the side walls, and hunkered down under tin roofs to listen to the plink plink and gush of raindrops, signaling that Allah had blessed them […]
This Friday Fiction is (mercifully) short, as to test out the power of a few sentences – enjoy! She watched the bubbles escape from her nose and break for the surface, making tiny rainbows with the light from the sun. It would be so easy, she thought, to just keep pushing downward and let all […]
Ok, so it’s technically a little late to be called Friday Fiction, but if you’ll forgive me a few hours, here’s the start of my next writing project: She woke to the sound of house geckos meeting on the top of her mosquito net. They looked down on her with their beady eyes and […]
Going with a trend on Twitter, I’m going to start posting some of my fiction work on – you guessed it – Fridays. Here’s the first installment of a short story that I’m working on: When the moment was right, Sera snatched the paper crane right out of Sister’s hand. Indifferent to the gasp and […]
This week is the final one before spring break for me, in which time I have to devote my brain power to studying for a tough midterm and readying myself for the visit of my best friend, Heathy. It’s going to be a great (and tiring) week, so instead of posting my usual series of […]
I know.Sometimes it’s completely wonderful to spend a weekend away from yourself. Away from all the little opinion pieces floating around in your head, narrating your life as if you were some sort of child and needed to be directed at every turn. Eat this, don’t touch that, be careful! Things aren’t so much different […]