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As a writer, I have done mainstream, alternative and on-line journalism, written for non-profit organizations and published fiction and poetry. From 2005-2007, I provided technical advice to the publication and distribution unit of HakiElimu, a dynamic, Tanzanian non-profit organization.

Here are some examples of my published writing:

Media

Turning journalism on its head @InfoChange News & Features, an online resource on sustainable development and social justice in India and South Asia.

Marginalised voices get a new life on the Net @Infochange News and Features, India.

The Arts

Head Turning Sculptures @The Rover, an independent review of art and culture with a Montreal emphasis.

A Real-life Indian hero c @Roverarts.

Tantalising Glimpses: Tibet in Montreal @Roverart.

Development, environment and non-profit issues

Building individual donor base key to success, the Canadian Fundraising and Philanthropy newsletter.

From caterpillar to butterfly – an article on a women's health issue written for the Women's Feature Service.

Support for self-reliance, for the news service of the Centre for Environment Education, India.

Joy of Learning, for the news service of the Centre for Environment Education, India.

Eating on the run, IDRC Reports (International Development Research Centre), Canada.

India's Narmada Dam Valley Project Ecodecision, Canada.

The Indian media's response to global warming, News Media in a Shrinking World, Encounter 90, University of Western Ontario, Graduate School of Journalism, Canada.

Environmental Racism, Environmental Justice, first published in the Cross Cultural Centre newsletter, Toronto. Reprinted in the Low-Income Families Together newsletter, Toronto.

Opinion editorials

Why don't you start a reading club? The Citizen, a Tanzanian newspaper.

Are our schools safe for girls? The Citizen, Tanzania.

llustrated storybooks

The final publications, done for a Tanzanian NGO, are in Kiswahili. Each publication link is therefore followed by the storyboard in English

Don't slip and fall on the HIV Road (extracts, 2.2Mb pdf)

HIV Road storyboard

Zainabu's Education (extracts, 712Kb pdf)

Zainabu's Education storyboard

Travel

Destination Himachal, The Times of India.

Buddhism

Buddham Sharanam Gachami, Ottawa Shambhala Centre newsletter.

Mahamudra Vision, The Dot, the Shambhala quarterly newsletter.

Fiction

Munni, was published in Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 8 in 2011.

Reveries of a Riot, was published in Aurat Durbar, Writings of Women of South Asian origin, edited by Fauzia Rafiq, published by Second Story Press, 1995.

Zindagi Itefaq Hai (Life is Chance), "The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad", Winter 1998.

Freire stopped in Bombay, "Cerebration", Issue IV, 2005

Poetry

Spliced Worlds, in "Cerebration", No 3, 2006

Indian woman When Your Voice Tastes Like Home, Imigrant Women Write, Edited by Prabhajot Parmar and Nila Somaia-Carter, Second Story Press, 2003

Carsong, The Pedalling Planet: BicycleShare Reading Book, 1995

Bloor StreetLow Income Families Together Newsletter, 1996