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You Have 4000 Weeks To Live

a book review

Singapore, June 2026

My sister, Simi, is a rockstar architectural engineering professor at Drexel in Philadelphia.

Frolicking at the Ottawa Tulip Festival

My mother planned an adventure this May, a trip to Ottawa to see a dear college mate (Zulfi Uncle) from her Lahore days in the late 1960s, reconnect with a long lost niece (Syny Apa), and visit a Bangladeshi family friend (Bokul Aunty) who had also lived in Nigeria in the 70s.

Provincetown Summer

When I think back to my week in Provincetown last summer, I still feel sparkly inside.

Mexico City

Magical Mega City

Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh

As with most of my life, this post is an ode to my mother.

TAKE-JJJJ in the San Juan Islands

In 2015, Josh’s book and cat loving mother Janine, rented a beach house in the gorgeous and gorgeously named Isle of Palms, a barrier island not far from her home in Charleston, South Carolina.

THE NAME IS MAMDANI

New York City's first Muslim mayor, the first of South Asian heritage, the first born in Africa, and the youngest in more than a century

Valencia in January

Dear friends,