Ahsan's Fables

What you will find here is not comfort, nostalgia, or the careful self-translation meant to flatter an imagined Western gaze. These are fables drawn from kitchens, living rooms, marriage negotiations, and family silences. They belong squarely to South Asian diaspora literature, but they refuse its usual consolations. There are no redemption arcs here.

If these stories feel uncomfortably precise, it is because they are written by someone who has paid attention. This is work that assumes intelligence in its reader and accountability in its subjects. It treats ordinary dysfunction as worthy of the same merciless examination once reserved for empires and rulers. In doing so, it takes its place without apology, not as therapy or confession, but as indictment art.