Kiran Masroor
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kiran.masroor@yale.edu
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KIRAN MASROOR
POETRY: Interrupted Connection

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March 14, 2021

KIRAN MASROOR
MASROOR: The stuff of daydreams

“Action is character,” our English teacher says. I think it means that if we never did anything, we wouldn’t be anybody. So much of life […]

March 1, 2021

KIRAN MASROOR
MASROOR: There is always someone singing, somewhere

The first time it happens, I’m introduced to a woman who works at the Yale New Haven Hospital. We smile at each other, she begins […]

November 4, 2020

KIRAN MASROOR
MASROOR: In God’s spam?

Before I go to bed, I can imagine my grandmother rising for morning prayer. I can hear her whispering my name and my brothers’ in […]

April 9, 2020

KIRAN MASROOR
MASROOR: On performative empathy

Coming here for the first time, I had the idea that because the Yale community is so academically strong, our social culture must be highly […]

February 4, 2020