Ingredients: 1 Whole Chicken with skin ½ a bunch of fresh parsley 2 tsp Pepper 2 tsp Salt 2 tbsp ginger paste 2 tbsp olive oil 2 tbsp butter ½ tsp rosemary ½ tsp thyme ½ tsp parsley flakes 1 lemon quarter Lemon zest Vegetable assortment: carrots/squash/zucchini/celery/onions/potatoes/mushrooms ½ tsp corn starch 1 tbsp cold water … More Nazran’s Surprisingly Good Roast Chicken
A week, two weeks, a month passed with no update. In late October I scheduled a meeting with the Field Office from sheer impatience. To get an appointment at the USCIS Baltimore Office you have to stay up till midnight and then log into the system at 12:01 am and grab 1 of 40 or … More Getting a Green Card in Today’s America: What It Has Taken (pt. 4)
Politics Affects Individuals Like Us More In September 2018 we received our present from the Trump Administration: we were requested to come in for an intimidating final Green Card Interview at the USCIS Baltimore Field Office with a Case Officer. This is a new step in the process, a true gift from the Government. In … More Getting a Green Card in Today’s America: What It Has Taken (pt. 3)
What is a PERM, you ask, from the previous post? Well, it is from here onwards that begins the next process of trying to take a real shot at the American Dream – The Green Card. To qualify for a Green Card through an employer you need to successfully pass through three successive phases. Without … More Getting a Green Card in Today’s America: What It Has Taken (pt. 2)
Follow the story of a real-life immigration journey in Trump’s America in 2019. … More Getting a Green Card in Today’s America: What It Has Taken
Usable for non-commercial reuse My Friday night Movie Night turned out to be a truly satisfying experience, and “Black Panther” (2018) – the movie itself – was only part of why. I say that to be dramatic, just to open this post with a catch line, really! But no, in all honesty, the movie did … More Black Panther (2018): Movie Review
The South Asians are freaking out. The Lankans are freaking out. The Americans are freaking out. Okay fine, maybe I’m just exaggerating, a bit. Or maybe I’m not. Let me ramble. The girls have it bad. Bad-der, correction. The brown girls have it worse, or what I mean here is everyone from the brown lands … More The Singles’ Anxiety: An Invisible Pandemic (Part 1)
It’s been some time since I’ve written for the Literartist. But an X-Men movie has never failed to take me back to my pen. Logan (2017) is a rich turbulent dive into one of the darker currents of the human experience. To summarize, we find ourselves stumbling in an almost mutant-less world in 2029 where … More Logan (2017): Movie Review
Long time since I did a music video review; but when Queen Bey drops a nuclear musical bomb like this – errbody needs to be on high alert! This is not a drill; this is Code Black. Critics are raving, law enforcement is cringing, Right white conservatives are shrinking, and the black rights movement is … More Beyoncé’s "Formation" (2016): Music Review – The Beyoncé Politic
On a spectrum, I’ve been tossed into happy. Long awaited but not expected, I can feel myself recovering from what has been unveiled to be a once fractured mind. As I walk now, the billowing cold air that sliced at me last winter now feels silky, soothing cinders long burnt by fire. The condition from … More The Fractured Mind
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