Kashaf Bin Shamim

It always began at night, like clockwork. A stillness would settle over the house, thick and suffocating, before the first sound would escap...

As the opening day of Khair’s Café & Restro approaches, Mehandi Hassan, future barista extraordinaire, reflects on the hilar...

When Buddha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree in Bodhgaya, he entered a realm of profound understanding. He saw the nature of exis...

Bodh Gaya is a strange place to live if you’re like me—someone haunted by questions about existence. Everywhere you look, people...

Every day feels like an episode of The Alien Diaries. If someone were to document my life, it would probably be titled Kashaf an...

Uncle Roberto was having one of those “I’m-a-man-on-a-mission” days. You know the type. He called me and my father over, insisti...

The weight of loneliness has become unbearable for me. Watching Shah Rukh's romantic movies since childhood, I harbored a dr...