MannMukti

Fall 2011: “Congratulations, we are pleased to inform you have been accepted into our medical school.” It felt unreal. I’d gained admission into a U.S. Medical school I’d wanted since I was a kid. I was born severely premature, only 2 pounds, and medicine saved my life.

There is a lot I have dreamt of doing, but my choices for short-term gratification have somewhat impeded me from reaching those goals.

Competition may be perhaps one of the biggest driving forces in South Asia’s education system, but that’s certainly not the case in…

I forgot. I forgot about how he looked like until today. Only today, in this very moment, when I saw a picture of him, did I remember…

3 years ago due to some family issue, I went into a dark space. It was very rough for me, but I endured it all thinking that…

I was sexually assaulted and violated by someone not once, but twice. And possibly multiple times without my knowledge…

I was so young when it started that I can’t even recall how old I was when it happened the first time, but I know it had been happening…

I thought that middle school was going to be the biggest and most positive change in my life. Being bullied for how…

My little brother had just gone through the diary my best friend in boarding school made for me. The cover was…

Ninety-eight pounds. That’s what stared back at me. Ninety-eight pounds of skin and bones is what I had turned into…

One by one, the bangles come off, the sparkle from the nose stud disappears and the body which once was draped in rich…

I’ve always believed in love. And now I’ve had it returned to me in kind but there was a long period of time in my life…