Aug 31, 20202 min readBetween Allah and AtheismIt is still three and a half years until the elections, but I have already stopped using the word musalmaan. It stuck in my mouth,...
May 11, 20202 min readFriends Over FollowersAt around 11 pm on the 11th, which happens to be an hour ago from today, I began crying in my bed. Round, warm teardrops forming in my...
Apr 21, 20206 min readWhy is Asur's Nusrat Sayed Muslim?It was morning by the time I completed watching Voot’s new thriller series “Asur”, whose poster had been stuck in my head from Mumbai’s...
Apr 13, 20202 min readA Letter to Kimya“I slept peacefully that night, feeling exultant and determined. Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful...
Jan 9, 20202 min readReading Faiz at Twenty One‘How much Urdu do you know?’ ‘Very little.’ ‘Then why learn now?’ I did not answer the question of my prospective Urdu tutor, a junior in...