Farah Ahamed

Twenty-five years since my dear Sam died in the Kanungu Massacre under Dominic’s cult movement, the Restoration of the Ten Commandments.

Who was to blame for what happened?

Kulsum endures solitary confinement and mental torment in a women’s jail in Pakistan. While the warder and other inmates, even her husband, may think Kulsum is mad, her reflections on religion and hypocrisy make her the voice of reason.

The language used to talk about menstruation is rarely neutral. It is often coded, euphemised, and entangled in myths of impurity, shame, and secrecy. It doesn’t just describe menstruation—it shapes how menstruators think about themselves.

No one really knows what karma really is and how it applies to our lives. Some people say good or bad luck is a result of your own actions. They say, ‘here we go, karma strikes again.’

Farah is interviewed by Zana Mody, an English DPhil student at the University of Oxford who works on postcolonial Indian literature and art.

Currently, hardly any PTAs address the urgent sensitivity of menstrual data with regard to law enforcement in their privacy policies and offer safeguards for users’ data against legal threats.