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Indebted Immigrant

When I arrived in Iowa on a late summer night in the mid-nineties, with two suitcases and two hundred dollars in my pocket, I was the…

Jun 18, 2020

Indebted Immigrant

Jun 18, 2020

Luna Ranjit

प्रतिरोध बोल्छ मेरो उपनिवेशित जिब्रो

मेरो जिब्रो एउटा उपनिवेश जहाँ मलाई पूर्वजहरुसँग जोड्ने मेरो मुटुको भाषालाई विस्थापित गरेर आधिपत्य जमायो बाँच्नको लागि चाहिने भाषाले हाम्रा…

Jul 28, 2021

Jul 28, 2021

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Death By A Thousand Cuts: Newa Community & The Caste System

Caste-based discrimination is in news once again in Kathmandu, propelled by the courage shown by Rupa Sunar to not quietly accept the fact…

Jul 10, 2021

Jul 10, 2021

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Rain Dance

Every year, monsoon winds arrive, soaking the dusty, parched valley floor faraway, hills tumble down to meet the river outside, the galli…

Jul 10, 2021

Rain Dance

Jul 10, 2021

Luna Ranjit

instructions for the second shift

Rush back from school in the afternoon. Throw bookbag to a corner. Eat a snack.

Jul 10, 2021

instructions for the second shift

Jul 10, 2021

Luna Ranjit

the sprawl

Looking down from the perch in Swayambhu where tourists jostle with the locals for the view, you see a multi-headed hydra sprinting…

Feb 24, 2021

the sprawl

Feb 24, 2021

Luna Ranjit

Layers of Language

Short Reflection on Hierarchies and Subtleties in the Languages I Speak

Jan 29, 2021

Layers of Language

Jan 29, 2021

Luna Ranjit

all things old is new again

“Modernize!” They told us when we were young Don’t wallow in old wives’ tales, antiquated norms Don’t use what you have in gardens, in…

Jan 26, 2021

all things old is new again

Jan 26, 2021

Luna Ranjit

Two Arcs of My Immigration Story

I can tell my immigration story two different ways. One, I came here with $200 and two suitcases holding almost all of my worldly…

Dec 24, 2020

Two Arcs of My Immigration Story

Dec 24, 2020

Luna Ranjit

Voting in honor of my father

I still wish I could have shared my experience of being a first-time-voter with my father, my political idol who taught me by example.

Nov 2, 2020

Voting in honor of my father

Nov 2, 2020

Luna Ranjit

Luna Ranjit

organizer at heart. strategy consultant by trade. mostly prose with occasional forays into poetry. https://tinyletter.com/LunaRanjit

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