Shehrbano Minallah
Shehrbano Minallah (she/her) is an educationist in Pakistan/Canada. She has a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Chicago which she attended as a Fulbright scholar. She is also a graduate of the Humber School for Writers where she was awarded a distinction. In her free time she enjoys reading (preferably South Asian literature) and writing. She also loves reading children’s books with her three children. She runs an outdoor book club for young ones in Islamabad @forestreadingclub. She can be reached at sminallah@uchicago.edu.
Standing in my sterile and deadly-silent Canadian kitchen, I am suddenly transported to a winter evening in my street back home in Islamabad. The old vendor hunched over his rickety cart in his brown khaddar shawl and white Chitrali winter hat.