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Elest Ali

Kafka said: 'A non writing writer is a monster courting insanity.' Between bouts of genius and writers block exists hours of procrastination in which we scribble things that should never see the light of day. This is where they come to die.

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Tu ne ye Phool

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This poem is about love,
when botched gender roles made us all edges that won’t fit; 
and everything is political.

And it unfolded (this...
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The Backstory

After four years of jubilant labour, the thing you fall into when you’ve finally gotten the book out is probably not far off from post-partum depression. I say this a little begrudgingly, because I hate it when writers call their published...

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Why the Mughals still matter

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17th Century, Delhi. A Prince of the world’s most economically powerful empire joins...

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Getting grateful for the things that go wrong

I got shampoo in my eye while showering today. It burned like when we were kids. I now have one red eye. And gratitude for everything that went wrong this month.

"Wa lā ghāliba illā Allāh" (ولا غالب إلا الله) - "There is no victor except A...

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Cyprus

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My father didn’t forget
the smell of tomato vines 
in the early morning sun, 
as his Dede showed him how 
to water the patch.

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