Known Turf

When the traffic light turned red, kids would dart up. Peering into the auto-rickshaw, tapping at the cab window, they offered a dozen roses...

  A nkhon  dekhi , a Hindi phrase referring to an event that one has personally witnessed, was adopted as the title for a 2013 film where Ba...

Consider the zombie. What separates it from a human? Both walk, both get hungry, both are capable of violence, both can – in different ways ...

Among the nicer things to happen in 2020: Prelude to a Riot won the Tara Literature Live! Award for fiction. Here's the announcement on...

Bread, Cement, Cactus: A memoir of belonging and dislocation  is available in the USA, UK and in India, in print as well as in ebook format....

Here's a short story I wrote about a year ago. It was inspired by Twitter fights. It was published in the Griffith Review's special ...

Dr Ghulam Yazdani was the first to photograph Ajanta paintings, and to initiate the first serious conservation of Ajanta and Ellora. His wor...

I was interviewed recently by Saumya Kalia for Outlook magazine. One of the questions she put to me was taking off on something I said after...

From my essay on learning from the lockdown and the new normal, published in The Indian Express: In the new millennium, I saw new kinds of i...

A short passage from an essay I wrote about Indian writing in English, and the insinuation that it was an elitist club: Occasionally, I also...