Dur e Aziz Amna

Dur e Aziz Amna is a writer based between Rawalpindi and Ann Arbor. Her writing has won awards from the Financial Times and London Magazine. She holds a BA from Yale University, and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan, working on her first novel.

A cold heart

Shortlisted in the Himal Short Story Competition 2019.

Jan 17, 2020

Latest Articles

In Mizoram, a refugee crisis highlights Mizo tribal affinities and hostility

Shared Zo identity has Mizos extending hospitality to Chin and Kuki-Chin refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh. More remarkable is that Chakmas, mistreated by the Mizo majority in Mizoram, have welcomed Kuki-Chin refugees too

In ‘Agra’, a grim portrait of the repressed Indian man

Director Kanu Behl’s Hindi feature film examines the sexual obsession and frustration of men, mental health and the transactional nature of human relationships in a patriarchal society where space is in short supply

When neoliberalism came to the Indian farm

With a focus on agricultural policy since the 1990s, 'Distress in the Fields' demonstrates how neoliberal interventions sowed the seeds of the crisis faced by farmers today