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TBR Highlight

This TBR Highlight seeks to draw attention to writings, conversations and artwork by Afghan women that Usawa Literary Review has courageously and emphatically presented in their Matchbox edition, September 2025.

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Re-reading the Classics – Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

TBR celebrates Charlotte Bronte’s birth month April by re-reading two chapters of her classic novel Jane Eyre.  In Re-reading the Classics, TBR tries to entice the readers into going back to reading some of the most famous books that were a large part of our growing up.

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Spectral Fables

It shouldn’t. We live unlike the living. In the end, for us, it’s all drawings and diameters and directions.

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Asylum

Our trip is a week-long promotional tour arranged by American donors. A vehicle to show the American donors how projects like NAZO…

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Vanishing Citizens

His appearance hasn’t changed much since I last saw him, except for the streaks of grey in his hair, which he still keeps long.

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Aparigraha

Some of the tension stiffening his shoulders relaxes as he slumps back. As the rickshaw starts, a dusty wind rages into it and Devang sighs with relief.

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Serious and Hardworking

“Money isn’t of any importance,” Mr. Carleton said. “We’ve never had a renter with us and my wife was only feeling a bit nervous having someone come living with us.

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When The Water Tables Turn

I walk through mostly empty ravine-like streets until I reach the Art Centre. The extremophiles are making a fortune today, it seems.

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Afterwards

Could a phrase reach her and encourage her to stand? Suddenly, all the furniture falls on top of her, the whole weight of the bed, the dining room table…

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A Change of Climate

The dog came to a screeching halt. Growling but at attention, oblivious to the hail, it stopped and stared at the Slim Jim, licking its jowls all the while.

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The Woman Who Married a Peepal Tree

The peepal by the river also seemed to be glowing in a special way that morning. Though the river reflected the sun just as it did daily…

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Gold-unTouch

After a while, his mother, parched with thirst, asked for water. An earthen pot stood under a ghaf tree, but it was forbidden for Dalits to touch it.

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Shuklaburhi

Shuklaburhi’s father-in-law, Sri Bamacharan Prodhani, was a renowned man from Kalahaat village near Dhubri town.

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Two Mini Stories

The hall was filled with hungry diners. She served the dishes on each plate as if it were her own body she had cooked.

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Nani’s Noose

This is the way Nani is. Fire, one moment; cool water, the next.  Even her rage is special.

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Tetari

Days would pass before she ate even a morsel of food … and there was no one to ask after her either.

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House Warming

Dastgir transported farm produce for large farmers and worked as a cook whenever he could.

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Tiffin Box

His mind drifted back to the hunger pangs that had plagued him from the beginning, a familiar sensation that…