Tabish Nawaz
Tabish Nawaz is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Science and Engineering Department at IIT Bombay. He is passionate about water bodies, rain, trees and birds and considers them as his kins and pals. His teaching, research, reading and writing are attempts to bring unity with Nature. His essays and literary writings have appeared in The Punch Magazine, The Bangalore Review, Kritya, Spark Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, eFiction India, Temper Literary Review, Indian Review, among other places.
Four Annas
On every birthday, Mirza’s mother gave him a four-anna coin. As a kid, he never found it odd. However, on growing up, the practice...