Lata, my best friend had always this one strange side to her which constantly nagged at her very existence. That sphere of torture to her lay in the fact that I had in my 11 years of knowing her, never taken her out for lunch or dinner. Sure we have as young college students of the 21st century munched our way through vegetarian burgers, French fries and ice cream at McDonalds … [Read more...] about Fine Dining and Books with Lata: by Fiza Pathan
Essays
The Unnoticed Writer
Over the last couple of days there’s been fair amount of buzz around the fiction writer Edith Pearlman. Her “break-out” story collection, Honeydew, is forthcoming from Little, Brown & Company. … Source: The Unnoticed Writer … [Read more...] about The Unnoticed Writer
The Terrorist by Fiza Pathan
The Terrorist Many people get many nicknames or tags in life. Some are good which you can live with and some are so embarrassing that you would rather not talk about them. I too have accumulated plenty of nicknames in 25 years of stay on this planet Earth; but one nickname stands out among all the others…something so demeaning and so humiliating that it almost ruined my … [Read more...] about The Terrorist by Fiza Pathan
Born To Read by Fiza Pathan
Born To Read This June, I opened up my very own circulating library for children, teenagers and young adults called Born to Read. By the grace of God it is doing well and I’ve converted all (and when I say all I really mean ‘all’) my students into readers. The idea of opening a library in my tuition house came to me last year in October and from that moment, I have been … [Read more...] about Born To Read by Fiza Pathan
The Sangeeta Library
The Sangeeta LibraryMy name is Danny Roe and I am a eunuch or what we are better known as in India──a Hijra. However, I’m very different from the regular eunuchs of India who beg on the streets and at times enter into prostitution to earn a living. I work on my own. I’m a Hijra who owns a library which deals in second hand books. Therefore one can certainly say that I am a … [Read more...] about The Sangeeta Library