You gave me respite from the most difficult of memories. Other times, you were a source of shame…
Read MoreThere will be differences. We are not all the same. Convergence and divergence live in all communities…
Read MoreOnce you get off the main thoroughfares that cut through the city, you are immediately in labyrinths of small streets, side streets and alleys. You never know what you’re going to find as you walk down those byways. A new restaurant, a tailor shop, an antique shop, a high-end jewellery store side by side with a massage parlor or a five-star hotel with a small flower stall next to it….
Read MoreI remember a few instances vividly from my childhood in Pakistan, which would now be looked at with horror in the west, as an invasion of privacy…
Read MoreI was never truly accepted by South Asian community as their own because on the outside I look more Indigenous…
Read MoreThe truth was that I hadn’t been sleeping well and was exhausted. I was still emotionally fatigued by this big move and was also dealing with family issues on the side…
Read MoreHere I stand and there you are. I wave to your response over a chasm of politics and prejudice…
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