Pushpa’s husbands’ ages ranged from 21 to 35. Her mother called them “four Pandvas” after the mighty “five Pandvas,” husbands to the all-powerful Draupathi,…

Ameena was 15 when she married Munir. “Got” married, to be precise. She first laid eyes on him at the Nikah (wedding ceremony). Munir’s…

The day after the bombing, I got a call from Rahman whom I hadn’t seen or heard from in years. He had been a…

Growing up, Emma’s world was confined to her neighborhood, a ten block area 30 miles northwest of the city center. The neighborhood had everything:…

Wayne was a farm boy even though he had left the farm over a decade ago. He was still the innocent who saw only…