On the first day, B takes me to buy a warm jacket, shows me how to buy a metro card, how to use the subway and helps me get a cellphone contract. I have exact money in my budget for these things. I count the money, write it down in […]
She comes to the height of my waist. She reaches up to the table and takes bread, meats and pieces of fruit. She makes her way back to the table, almost hops onto her seat. Pulls open her napkin spreads it open on her lap. Eats, chews, looks around. It […]
A travel piece I published about my time in Spain at the wonderful Patios Festival in Cordoba. SHUBNUM KHAN was in Córdoba for the city’s famed Patio Festival and came back with a kaleidoscope of colours and the smell of jasmine and geraniums seared into her memory. In mid-May each year, […]
Through the windows, the landscape passes, like wind through my hair, the train passes through dawn, A crisp light in the air, passengers fumble for blankets, toothbrushes, a hand to grasp Curtains drawn a yawn a supplication to God Voices, foreign the land stops, the cold morning air And me, […]
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