Maisha Nazifa Kamal

This is just another fish tank.

Oh, I’m waltzing down.

SHOUT sat down with Zareen to hear about her life, her experiences, and her reaction to winning the award through her undergraduate thesis.

Zareen Tasneem Sharif is the first Bangladeshi to achieve this feat, aka the 'Junior Nobel'.

The world underwater which I can never see from up here, the world in mid-sky.

I believe recipes have stories in them.

"She was just living her ordinary, mundane life when she lost her Childhood Capsule."

Something was ominous about the way the doorbell rang. Not that the one who pressed it was bringing bad luck, but the other side seemed menacing for the one who waited at the door.

Climbing over walls with barbed wire fences, Steep stairs and stained elevators,

I am a photo of a person, printed in black and white, in a newspaper.

"As stereotypical it sounds, you don’t need to know my name."

This task is a daunting one. Take some notes.

The arrival of a new member didn’t stir up the residents of the Closet. After all, every few days their population increased as one member (and sometimes even more than one) was added from the outside.

It's important to identify this aspect of colourism shown towards animals.

Today, as I hail a rickshaw and as it slowly paddles across an alley and then flits out onto a busy road, my mother's word echoes along with my little silver jhumkas in the air. And thus starts my game.

Mr. Hakim was a very strange man for three things: he seldom spoke, he always smiled and he sold bottles of waves.

The importance of learning is immense, but what is equally important is "unlearning".

Let's convince you how great this is.

And so it finally rains, it finally rains when I write.

Writer's block is something every writer goes through when they run out of inspiration. It's a disdainful feeling of being stumped and dissatisfied. And this takes a whole new toll on writers now that they are stuck at home.