Eds: In March 2013, Himal Southasian announced its short story competition, open to all, to write stories based around our Online-istan theme. Entries went through two rounds of judging by our editorial team, before the final selection was made by Southasian author Prajwal Parajuly, whose debut coll
In 1952, my parents, Pran and Soni Prashad, left Calcutta, India for Japan. They had been married for four years, and two children had already been born to them; two
