Writing Process

Almost exactly twenty years ago, I published a short story in an anthology called Experiencing America: Through the Eyes of Visiting Fulbright Scholars. The editors, Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani and Omer Idrees, chose mine together with several other stories by Fulbright scholars from around the world, who were studying or teaching in the US at the time. This is where the magic happens Fast forward to today, I am sitting at one of the places where I belong now: at Shut Up & Writ

My second writing retreat turned out to be so much better than the one before

It’s Blue Monday. So naturally, I decided to launch my website as a writer today. Not because the timing is perfect. But because writing was never about perfect timing. It’s about paying attention. Being there. Saying things that want to be said. My site gathers what I write and what I’m working on: stories, articles, essays, fragments, departures, arrivals. Words as places you can linger in. If Blue Monday is about heaviness, this is me choosing to put something into the wor