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Writers on the 2016 US Election: Shenaz Patel

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Shenaz Patel is a Mauritian writer and a 2016 resident of the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa.

As islanders, we know how attentive we have to be to signs when a cyclone approaches.

Will I dare say it aloud? But then, everything about “politically correct” seems thrown to the dogs these days. And perhaps the core of the problem is we’ve had an overdose of political correctness, which has drugged the capacity to see, and hear, and feel. Continue reading