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Srinagar: Occupation by Day & Night in Panorama

Originally published in Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature's 12th edition: Cities, Dorabji's piece "Srinagar: Occupation by day and night," chronicles her visit to the Press Colony and spending Another Friday Night in Kashmir during her 2018 visit to Srinagar.

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Chicago Quarterly Review

"The new South Asian American writer is a wild beast.”–Guest Editor Moazzam Sheikh I'm honored to have new work published in the South Asian American Issue, alongside so many fierce writers and friends (including Neelanjana Banerjee, Minal Hajratwala, Soniah Kamal, Swati Khurana, Nayomi Munaweera, Shivani Narang, Moazzam Sheikh, Pireeni Sundaralingam, and more!) So down to be part of this wildness.“

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Drunk Monkeys

A poem of love written in San Miguel de Allende after finding two scorpions in my room.

They say scorpionsAre solitaryBut really they are loversDancing in darknessto find their mate

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Cancerlandia

Tara Dorabji catches up with Juan Alvarado Valdivia and discusses his debut memoir, Cancerladia. Humorous and brutally honest, Juan chronicles his story, overcoming cancer and confronting alcoholism. The interview first aired on La Raza Chronicles, KPFA.

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Surveillance in America

A conversation about surveillance targeting Brown people in America - first, Dr. Hatem Bazian discusses the Department of Homeland Security’s new “Shared Responsibility Committees,” which bring the FBI and local law enforcement together with mental health and other city and school programs and social workers to report on suspicious behavior.

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