Bakhtawar is a student writer, her work primarily focuses on interpersonal relationships, literature, and the ways in which we interact with the systems around us. With ethics and behaviour being a major focus — she runs a Substack of her own, where she writes for her newsletter: Stories and States, and is the Operations Manager of the Asian Writers Collective. On the sidelines, Bakhtawar writes fiction, and is currently working on her debut novel exploring mental health, grief, and the systems that bank on it.