I dashed off my first short story in January 1994, right after coming home to Detroit on a Greyhound bus from Buffalo. Many rewrites later, this was published two years after as “Felicia” in the anthology Contours of the Heart: South Asians map North America. I am grateful for that encouragement.

Twelve of my stories are being published in the book Killing the Water by Penguin India. Below are links to a few stories that are not in the book.

• Fragments from a lost manuscript,
  published in the anthology In Pursuit of the Perfect Gourmet Garam Masala, Skrev Press 2007, UK.

  Sometime in the year 2131: By the time Indian astronomers discovered a distant planet that had a 99% possibility of hosting intelligent life — a planet they named Durga in honour of its ten moons — visitors from that planet had already arrived and established a sprawling base on the beds opened up by the melting of the Himalayan glaciers.
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• Felicia
  Published in the anthology Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, available from Amazon.com

She saw me eying the empty seat next to her at the back of the bus.
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