Conversations
International media tends to lump Pakistan’s mountains into a few narratives: in relation to Afghanistan, what the United States thinks about the region, geopolitics, and them being a backdrop to extremism. But it’s an area that has the potential to tell so many stories about climate change, from dramatic, romantic perspectives.
Read MoreIt is a romcom. I basically wrote a romcom! But I think in all the stories, the 5 or 6 that I’ve written, even if they don’t end well romantically (although this one ends well romantically), they always end well orgasmically . They are always getting off. Or at least, the woman is always getting off!
Read MoreI think I apply that sometimes to the Muslim-American thing where I think I felt—and maybe it’s because identity is formed through certain…I never went to any sort of Pakistani cultural whatever when I was growing up, but I did go to Islamic school every, well, most, Sundays throughout the year, and so there was this mechanism through which that side of my identity was formed.
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The pressure of "what am I painting and/or why?" can be crippling and I think we often forget that there's this whole tradition out there of believing in and appreciating the process of art-making for what it is. Can definitely be really liberating!
Read MoreI think I am writing towards my own people. They are my primary audience. There is a certain satisfaction in that. I also traveled a lot like this driver. Though not in lorries but rickety, run-down buses.
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