Works of Art

Click each square to explore the artistic contributions. They include poetry, prose, art, film, dance and music.

Invocation

Amina Ahmed

I’m afraid of America

Judy Blum

The Spirit of Asifa

Dr. Albert Haykel

Eight haikus for Asifa, age 8

Kiran Desai

Sad Asifa/Happy Asifa

Jaya Sargent

Hanky of Tears

Navina Haidar

A Song for Asifa

Shruti Ganguly &
Nilusha Dassenaike

Chrysanthemum

Shruti Shyam

The Secret Stamp

Tam Tran

Dividing Line

Zarina Hashmi

Gentle soul on a dangerous mountain

Pia Sarah Haykel

Cherry Bomb was the color of her lips

Uyen Tran-Gjerde

Untitled

Madhav Tankha

49 Pieces for 49 Hopes

Anonymous

A Girl Matters, Asifa Did Matter

Aviva Baig

Memories

Savita Monie

1001 Prayers

Mona Kamal

Sacred Alchemy

Jug Suraiya

For Asifa: A Poem

Anna Sujatha Mathai

Last Child First

Deepti Priya Mehrotra

My Life, A Flame

Shefali Malhoutra

Bharat Mata, Shaheen Bagh

Ram Rahman

Secret Superheroes,

Dig Deeper

Jahnvi Sharma

As If A life

Darshana Narayanan

The Lost Migration

Sam Dalrymple

The Daughter You Have Lost: A Short Story

Suketu Mehta

Can You Hear Me

Nalini Malani

Little Girl Walking into a Flower

Nalini Malani

Innocence Lost

Ziya Tarapore

The Refraction Series

Ghiora Aharoni

For Asifa, from my 8 year old self

Zette Emmons

A Shepard Princess

Hardarshan Singh Valia

Only Love, Shaheen Bagh

Rachna Singh-Davidar

To you, Asifa

Pia Sawhney

Mexican Women

Alberto Manguel

The World Comes to Us

Amitava Kumar

The Power of Grief (In memory of Asifa)

David Davidar

Stain

Anjum Singh

No More “Calmly Sailing By

Anuradha Roy

Islands

Arpita Singh

Woman of the Future

Manu Bhagavan

M(other)

Kiran Chandra

as delicate and strong as a brocade blossom

Anonymous

Mountain Walk

Tara Sabharwal

Border : an encounter

Vijay Dandapani

One for All

Priyanka Bhagavan

July Children

Jochen Sokoly

End of Summer

Rebecca Bluebell Ward

My old little friend appears in my dream

Yukari Edamitsu

Mountain Dance Tribute

Amy Pivar

Me Too

Indar Pasricha

We Shall Overcome

Maryam Ekhtiar

Moksha

Meena Alexander

Masoom

Astad Deboo

When Champa Grew Up

Nilima Sheikh

Asifa

Rose Viggiano

What Matters

Sejal Shah, Kirin Makker

With no immediate cause

Ntozake Shange

For Asifa

Joy Nagy

8th Birthday

Zuleikha Robinson

Nobody Knows Our Names

Tiffany Mangulabnan

Anak (Child)

Francis Estrada

Good Habits / Model Citizen

Pushpamala N

Enveloped

Kenna Kindig

The Depths

Melissa Wu

May She Not Be Forgotten With Time

ClockWork Cros

First Movement

Antoinette Momtahan

All singing, all dancing…

Max Wu | The 11th Film

Green Tara

Willien Lin

To Asifa. With Love.

Kristan Kosmos

Fire

Melissa Wu

public enemy#one

Francois Achan

Women of Allah

Shirin Neshat

"Suna hai...": a poem

Azra Raza

“O Rubor Sanguinis”—-in honor of Asifa Bano

Gabrielle Lamb

The Vision

Melissa Wu

Embroidered Memory: Asifa

Mary Symczak

1 Little Girl:00:00:00

Simone Alexander

Say Something

Bari Kumar

Seared

Satyakam Saha

Regarding India - Urmila Devi

Kathryn Myers

For Asifa, For the Child

Yamini Nayar

Massacres

Jamshied Sharifi

Black Water

Mark Prime

Fleshy Weapons

Shahzia Sikander

Asifa's Hand

Saks Afridi

Protection

Razia Grover

Vilomah

Prabeen Grewal

Stubborn Roots

Kuli Kohli

We are linked, not ranked

Gloria Steinem

At the Museum

Riz Ahmed

Kashmir

James Ivory

Asifa Wild & Free

Tam Tran

Blue Lake

Nitin Mukul

Frame

Michelle Thompson

Untitled

Prachi Dalal

Season of Migration

Mohammad Omer Khalil

She comes from Makeni

Aminatta Forna

The Road

Irtazaa Rumi

When there is peace

Rama Dhawan

Reconciliation Comes with Recognition

Raw by Nature

Fire On The Mountain

Anita Desai

The Artist-Philosopher: Naming, Sounding, Worlding

David Rothenberg and Ilgin Deniz Akseloğlu

Asifa ke naam

Dev Benegal

Asifa's Garden

Ruchira Gupta

In Memory of Asifa Bano

Gauri Gill

Sisters

Allia Jahanbin

Play like a Flower

Zulekha Ahmed Mirashah

Papa-ji, buy me an ice-cream cone

Kusum Haidar

Raga Maqam

Amir Elsaffar

I wasn’t supposed to meet Nadiya

Sonia Faleiro

It was playtime

Faiza Khan

Maya Angelou's
Still I rise and
Colors of her Heart

Mallika Sarabhai

A Pear A Day

Varsha Tiwary

Mirror Heaven

Anish Kapoor