Mala Malstead Mar 21, 2020 2 min Silver Linings: Corona virus Closes the Brothel Corona Virus causes customers to stay away from the brothels. For a short time at least, girls are not raped every night.
Mala Malstead Feb 12, 2019 3 min New Year - Bend When the storm comes Will you reject the rain If it falls not soft If it falls not tame When the wind blows And calls your name Will you ...
Mala Malstead Feb 12, 2019 3 min Africa and Appalachia Displacement is real. The state of the uprooted is a true predicament. It’s the scream in the night, “I’m here but I’m not home.”
Mala Malstead May 5, 2017 3 min Batten Down The Hatches I’ve been using every spare moment granted to me here in India to “batten down the hatches” and to prepare for an unknown future.
Mala Malstead Mar 15, 2017 3 min Waiting I am on a tightrope, holding in one hand my desire to win this case, and in the other, the knowledge that this may be our time to leave.
Mala Malstead Mar 11, 2017 3 min Many Roads Today, if I am not given a stay order in the Madras High court, I will be deported.
Mala Malstead Feb 27, 2017 3 min Living In Suspension The truth about living in suspension is that there is no new life I am adjusting to, no old life that I can guarantee.
Mala Malstead Feb 23, 2017 2 min Sheltered in Shadow Days dragged by, I stayed with kind friends and kept out of sight, warned by my lawyer and others to stay hidden.
Mala Malstead Feb 22, 2017 3 min Cotton Candy Palace The palace felt like a pause between my past and future, a memory of a forgotten time pressed against the windowpane of a modern landscape.
Mala Malstead Feb 17, 2017 2 min Leave India? The outcome of this fight will have far reaching implications in our own lives as well as the lives of other foreigners in India.