Essays

I write book reviews, essays and poetry.

Book reviews

Full Stop (2022), Jafari Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life

Full Stop (2021), Clarice Lispector’s novel An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures, trans. Stefan Tobler

Full Stop (2021), Kate Zambreno’s To Write as if Already Dead

Full Stop (2021), Bette Howland’s memoir W-3

Full Stop (2020), Ivan Vladislavić’s novel The Distance

Scroll.in (2019), Shiromi Pinto’s novel Plastic Emotions

The Hindu Business Line (2017), Kamila Shamsie’s novel Home Fire

The Hindu Business Line (2016), Alexandra Kleeman's novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

The Sunday Guardian (2014), Leslie Jamison's essay collection The Empathy Exams

The Sunday Guardian (2013), Anjum Katyal's biography of Habib Tanvir, Habib Tanvir: Towards an Inclusive Theatre

The Sunday Guardian (2012), P. Sivakami’s short story collection, The Taming of Women

Essays

An essay for Adult Mag (2015) on Alfred Steiglitz's photographs of Georgia O'Keeffe's hands

An essay for The Caravan (2013) on Shankar Nag fandom, Kannadiga identity and autorickshaws

An essay for The Caravan (2013) on animality in Manohar Shetty's work

"Divided at Birth" for The Caravan (2012): on an Afghan adaptation of Comedy of Errors

"Disarming Chords" for The Caravan (2011): on a Colombian peace-activist's unusual musical efforts

Poetry

Two poems for Triangle House Literary (issue 18)

Two poems for Burning House Press (2019)