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ESSAYS, REVIEWS, CRITICISM

SELECTED WORK

As an essayist and critic I’ve written for publications about literature, cities, and movies; a selection of my published writing is available on this site. My writing has been published on or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Virginia Quarterly Review, Public Books, Al Jazeera, and elsewhere.

SCURF

Weekly dispatches on how I connect with the world. Interviews with writers, filmmakers, artists. 

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Writing: Essays, Reviews, Criticism

Cinephilia: On Hindi Movies, My Mother, and Me

Words Without Borders | October 7, 2021

Letter from Delhi

Majuscule

Remembrance of cigarettes past

Idler | August 19, 2020 

Podcast: Literary City of Women

City of Women | May 23, 2024

Book Reviews

Full Stop

On the pleasures of hand-writing letters you’ll never send

Pyche | February 22, 2022

Here’s to my lovely, incandescent relationship with alcohol

Pyche | May 21, 2021

Cinephilia: On Hindi Movies, My Mother, and Me

Words Without Borders | October 7, 2021

All in the Family, or Of Fathers and Daughters

3AM Magazine | May 19, 2020

‘I smell it, taste it, feel its heaviness’: Life in Delhi’s dust

Aljazeera | May 30, 2021

Second Wave

Virginia Quarterly Review | June 29, 2021

Not Just Looking

Tribune | July 25, 2022

‘Translating Myself and Others’ Looks at Unspoken Aspects of the Practice

Frieze

Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir

The Brooklyn Rail | October, 2022

The Endless Hunger of Shiva Baby

The Brooklyn Rail | November, 2021

India’s Second COVID-19 Wave

The Brooklyn Rail | June, 2021

Ali Sethi’s Paniya

Popula | August 15, 2023

When My Indian Parents Went Online

Popula | April 11, 2022

ME TODAY: I stared at M, admiring his new post-lockdown haircut

Popula | October 6, 2021

Jane Jacobs and Delhi’s lockdowns

Popula | May 17, 2021

My Three Lives in Delhi

Popula | November 12, 2020

The New Silences of the Self in Quarantine

Berfrois | April 23, 2020

Editorial Writing

The Times Of India

Editorial Writing

Mint Lounge

Editorial Writing

Mint

Editorial Writing

Helter Skelter

The Case for Twitter as an MFA Community

Essay Daily | January 25, 2021

Writing Nonfiction as an Indian Woman

Brevity Blog | December 11, 2020

Editorial Writing

The Hindu

On Solitude and Discovery, in “Shadow City”

Chicago Review of Books | April 2, 2021

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