I'm writing a series of books about Oman, where I am currently based. Some of my best stories are on the tribes of the Empty Quarter where I fell in love with death, the Bedouin of the sea and the people of the mountains: the honey-gatherers and the beautiful women with turmeric-plastered faces. I talk of loneliness and dead-ends too, and green-eyed girls who live in a one-family village on the side of the mountain.

I specialise in intimate stories about people. I look for the little stories in the back-alleys, from cycle rickshaw pullers in Calcutta to the goatherds of Majamma. I layer my work with photographs, writing and design. This website brings together such tools, but my work is also chanelled into magazines, books and exhibitions. Read what others have said about my efforts, and what I have written about myself.



Last update: January 19, 2010: Howling over Yasab
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