For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.

I still hear the world spinning.

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.

Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.