Reporting & Memoir
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Citizenship Along Ethnic Lines: The Disenfranchised Indians of Madagascar, The Wire
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"The Delhi Walla's Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India": Profile of the Indian blogger, photographer, and flâneur Mayank Austen Soofi, NewYorker.com
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"State Capture: How the Gupta Brothers Hijacked South Africa Using Bribes Instead of Bullets", Vanity Fair
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"After the Strongman": Robert Mugabe & Zimbabwe, The New Republic
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"Among the Citizen Soldiers": A Post-Charlottesville Travelogue , Granta.com
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"My Struggle with American Small Talk": US Independence Day Feature, NewYorker.com
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"An Indian Abroad Watches Satyajit Ray in New York", Lithub
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"One Man's Impossible Quest to Read--and Review--the World": Profile of MA Orthofer, founder of The Complete Review, NewYorker.com
Profile of historian and travel writer William Dalrymple (PDF), Bookforum
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Stepwells and Civilization: A Travelogue, The Utopian
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Wonder Why, Granta.com
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Criticism
"A Brief Efflorescence": On the 2000s indie rock boom and Lizzy Goodman's Meet Me In The Bathroom, New ​York Review of Books
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Review of The Fraud by Zadie Smith, New ​York Times Book Review
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Review of The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid, New ​York Review of Books
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Review of Yashpal's 1941 novel Dada Comrade, translated for the first time into English, The Hindu (newspaper)
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Review of Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead, New ​York Times Book Review
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"India's Streaming Auteurs": On India's short-lived "Golden Age of TV" under Modi's rule, New ​York Review of Books
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Doris Lessing's Golden Notebook and Our Era of Unrest: 19th Amendment Centenary Feature, New ​York Times Book Review
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Review of Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif, New ​York Times Book Review
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"Foreign Tongues": On Ingmar Bergman's The Touch and The Serpent's Egg, Criterion Collection Ingmar Bergman Centenary Box Set
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Review of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy, New ​York Times Book Review
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Review of The Way Things Were by Aatish Taseer, LA Review of Books
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Review of Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marías, New York Times Book Review
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"India in Pieces": On Incarnations: India in Fifty Lives by Sunil Khilnani, NewYorker.com
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"The Two Asian Americas": On The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee, NewYorker.com
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On This Is Not That Dawn by Yashpal, NewYorker.com
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Review of Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, Wall Street Journal
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Review of The Exotic Marigold Hotel, Newsweek
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Review of Open City by Teju Cole, n+1 Book Review
Review of Solo by Rana Dasgupta, New York Times Book Review
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My Guilty Pleasure: Kurt Cobain’s Journals, NPR’s All Things Considered
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Review of American Taliban by Pearl Abraham, Bookforum
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Peering into Kashmir's Turmoil: A Profile of Basharat Peer, Daily Beast
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Review of Animal’s People by Indra Sinha, San Francisco Chronicle
Living With Music, New York Times Online
Review of All About H. Hatterr by GV Desani, The Believer
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Review of The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan, New York Sun
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Review of My Holocaust by Tova Reich, New York Sun
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Interviews
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Interview with social activist Swami Agnivesh, Scroll
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Interview with Aatish Taseer, author of The Twice-Born, FSG Work In Progress
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Interview with Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of Maladies and The Gene, "Peerless Minds" Anthology (republished in The Mumbai Mirror)
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Interview with Joshua Cohen, author of Moving Kings, Lithub
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Interview with Adam Ehrlich Sachs, author of Inherited Disorders, Bookforum.com
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Interview with Elizabeth Tallent, author of Mendocino Fire, TinHouse.com
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Interview with Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, author of Barefoot Dogs, TheRumpus.com
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Interview with Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son, The Paris Review Daily
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Interview with Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City, The Believer
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Fiction
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"The Attaché’s Wife",​ Granta
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"The True Margaret",​ The New Yorker
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"Wrong Yoga",​ Virginia Quarterly Review
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"The Anthology", Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists 3" Issue (Novella Excerpt)
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"Practice", Open City
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"The Fourth Type of Writer", Tehelka Fiction Issue
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Opinion
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"What My Red State Sees In Me", New ​York Times
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"Is Travel Writing Dead?", Granta.com
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"New York: 15 years after 9/11": September 11 Feature, Hindustan Times Brunch (India)
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"On Freedom and Writing": Indian Independence Day Feature, India Today
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