Nighat Gandhi is a writer, mother, sufi wanderer, and mental health counsellor. She spent her formative years in Dhaka and Karachi, and has subsequently spent many years in India and the United States. She consciously identifies as a citizen of South Asia to transcend limitations imposed by narrow nationalisms. Ghalib at Dusk is her collection of short stories (Tranquebar, 2009), What I am Today, I Won t Remain Tomorrow: Conversations With Survivors of Abuse (Yoda Press, 2010) is her second book