 While attending the University of Toronto (Woodsworth College) he won two Hart House literary prizes (the first to win two), for stories which were published in the "Hart House Review", and "Canadian Fiction Magazine"s annual Contributor's Prize for 1985.Three years later, Penguin Books Canada published his collection of 11 short stories, "Tales from Firozsha Baag".It was later published in the United States as "Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag".