Ramadan Prank
Time has become binary for Ammi. When I call her and ask when she will visit her sister or when she will get the doors painted, she says ‘After Ramadan’… Read more »
Category: Uncategorized
How to make mango pickle(my mother’s way)
1. Pray and wait for a stormy night in early summer, around mid May/early June, to give the mango trees a vigorous shake and drop the green mangoes to the… Read more »
Sun Across Continents
This post first appeared on The Pendora Magazine. Every winter morning, I open the blinds and look out the bedroom window of my suburban house in Ohio to see if… Read more »
Little Hunter
She purrs, slides from my lap, walks towards the kitchen.Hunkers down — ears thrust forward,back raised, tail twitching.I start. I am curious too. Written for #MicroMondays
I don’t want to know(Free Verse)
It’s past six My texts go unanswered Calls slither to voicemail I glance again at the clock Moving faster than normal? Shushing my heartbeat I start kneading the dough My… Read more »
The Real Price
In 2004,my husband was assigned to a long-term project in the USA and he asked me to join him so that we could witness the sun rise and set at… Read more »
Rain was different
My sallow eyes watch torrents of rain Lashing the glass windows Of my chic office on the seventeenth floor I can’t hear the tinkling of drops Or the rumbling of… Read more »
Lets stay home
How about we stay home this weekend Some time with you I’d love to spend Years of matrimony evanesced, let’s pretend And once again try to be just good friends… Read more »