political and cultural essays
“we are all palestinians: notes on solidarity and collective resistance” - culture shock, june 2024
“you, sir, are a space, too: the value of abstraction in an age of obviousness” - culture shock, april 2024
“on condemnation: terrorism, violence, and the question of palestine” - culture shock, november 2023
“getting away from it all: notes on travel and alienation” - culture shock, august 2023
“origin myths: asian-americans, affirmative action, and the invention of the model minority” - culture shock, july 2023
“in defense of hyphens: notes on grammar and identity” - culture shock, april 2023
“shiny objects: the koh-i-noor, rishi sunak, and the aesthetics of anticolonialism” - the drift, february 2023
“the politics of longing: notes on immigrant nostalgia” - culture shock, january 2023
“from buffalo to india, the right’s demographic paranoia fuels deadly violence” - jacobin, june 2022
“love as a verb: an anarchist reads bell hooks” - strange matters, june 2022
“a tale of two bulldozers” - the nation, may 2022
“the hindu right’s deniability politics” - protean magazine, may 2022
personal essays
“on living happily during the war” - culture shock, march 2024
“my nostalgia for enid blyton is complicated” - electric literature, november 2022
“small patches of america: when america’s suburban romance is undone” - catapult, june 2022
reported pieces
“hindu nationalism’s alarming rise in the us goes beyond texas” - the nation, september 2022
“salman rushdie joins indian writers on 75 years of independence” - the nation, august 2022