A safe space to share personal issues and stories.
Four days. That's the whole trip, Wednesday to Sunday, one conference in a city I've never set foot in, further from home than any trip…
Found out from a mutual friend's story on Instagram, three weeks after the fact, that Reshma got married in a small ceremony in Banjara…
I want to tell the story of my friend Arsalan, because it taught me something about hope. He and his wife Ayesha were settled in Dubai with…
I can't remember the last time I called Ayesha, which is strange to type out because there was a stretch of years, most of university and…
Six weeks of solid preparation for the last exam. I walked in knowing the material cold. Then the paper was in front of me and for the…
Every dinner table conversation in my house eventually finds its way to Chicago, where my cousin Rahul has been living for six years now.…
Four years since I left my job, right after our second was born, back when daycare would have cost more than I was even earning at the…
Ten kilos. That's roughly what I've put on over the last two years, between a desk job, some medication that didn't help, and stress that…
Two years next month. That is how long I have been with someone my parents have never met, someone from outside our community, and every…
My phone buzzed four times before nine in the morning last Tuesday, my cousin's marriage falling apart, my uncle's blood pressure spiking…