Articles By Aeman Ansari

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This weekend, I was going to cook qeema, qorma, fish curry, two types of daal, gobi ki bhujia, and mattar aloo

The Pakistani grocery store a couple of blocks away from my house was packed from one end to the other the week before Ramadan. For a month largely spent not eating, most of the prep is food related.

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The man-who-sells-birds-on-the-corner-of-the-street and I had an argument

Eventually, he released all of the birds, and I bought him a cup of tea.

Do I believe in djinns that occupy homes and animals and sometimes even human bodies?

I didn’t figure anything out, but on the way back to Anu Ma’s house, we bought pomegranates.

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I moved back and forth between this life and that life

Caught constantly between my open wounds pressed against sharp edges and my peeling skin, and her open wounds pressed against sharp edges and her peeling skin.