Shah Tazrian Ashrafi

Shah Tazrian Ashrafi is an MFA candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His debt book, 'The Hippo Girl and Other Stories', was published in 2024.

Joseph, our maths teacher

A short story

By Shah Tazrian Ashrafi

/ 23 Jun 2023

The Hippo Girl

A short story.

By Shah Tazrian Ashrafi

/ 30 Dec 2021

Caste on the streets: Dhaka’s street cleaners, many of them Dalits, faced a grim future even before the pandemic

Bangladesh confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on 8 March 2020. In the span of a little over a hundred days, the number of positive cases crossed the 100,000

By Shah Tazrian Ashrafi

/ 21 Jul 2020

Caste on the streets: Dhaka’s street cleaners, many of them Dalits, faced a grim future even before the pandemic