I write about a variety of subjects, including the environment, gender, design, travel, books and architecture/interiors. My work has appeared in Indian and international publications, in print and online. Here’s a list of some of the features I’ve written; please contact me for more clips or for reprint enquiries.
Selected Clips
- The Atlantic (Citylab) : The Typewriter industry is still hanging on in India
- The Atlantic (Citylab) : In India, a Religious Tradition Seeks a Green Makeover
- The Atlantic (Citylab): Why These Kids Staged a Play About Pollution
- The Atlantic (Citylab): The Fight to Shush India’s Booming Festival Season
- Architectural Digest India: 6 art-deco buildings in Goa
- Asiaville: Exploring the last of Goa’s salt pans
- Asiaville: Embracing my silver lining
- Asiaville: A love letter to my son’s teacher (an essay on corporal punishment)
- Broadly (Vice) : On Tinder in India
- Broadly (Vice): Female journalists in India face harassment
- Broadly (Vice): When taking a nap is a political act
- Broadly (Vice): The Women in India fighting for the Right to Pee
- BBC : The soaring arias of India
- BBC: India’s unique carriage museum
- Conde Nast Traveller India: A Goan House older than the Taj Mahal
- Conde Nast Traveller India: The Family Friendly Guide to Goa
- The Development Set: On India’s first lifestyle magazine for the blind
- Global Post: India’s condom showrooms
- Hakai : Eat, Love, Pay – Bangladeshis are willing to pay to protect their favorite fish
- Mint Lounge: Songs of the heart – a new stage for fado and mando in Goa
- Panorama- the Journal of Intelligent Travel : ‘Lost’ – Letter from Panjim
- Reader’s Digest : A group in Goa is helping keep migrants afloat
- Roads and Kingdoms: The unlikely origin story of a breakfast paradise
- Roads and Kingdoms: A rare treat from Mexico, in Western India
- Silverkris (Singapore Airlines) Walking through Panjim
- Scroll.in: On suicide prevention helplines in Goa
- Scroll.in: Goa’s appetite for wild mushrooms is hurting the ecology of the Western Ghats
- Scroll.in: Why Carnival in Goa is over-rated
- South China Morning Post: Op-ed on how India’s lockdown is increasing the digital divide for disadvantaged children.
- Teen Vogue: Menstrual health stigma in India
- TIME : Next time you’re in…Goa
- The Hindu: Poems : the new bedtime ritual
- The Hindu : Protecting paradise (on ethical travel in Goa)
- The Hindu: Pandemic Parenting with an only child
- The Hindu: Lockdown Parenting – It’s time to slow down
- The Telegraph UK : A series of hotel reviews for their Travel section (Alila Diwa Goa, The Oberoi Mumbai, Siolim House Goa, Vivenda dos Palhacos Goa, Olaulim Backyards, Goa)
- Tales of the Cocktail: Craft Cocktails by way of Goa
- National Geographic Traveller India: The World on a Christmas tree
- National Geographic Traveller India: Gone with the wild in Goa
- Cultures and Cuisines : Food for an Elephant God
- Munchies (Vice): Goa’s Monsoon Mushrooms
- Paste Magazine : Spicy Indian Breakfasts
- Wall Street Journal Blogs (2011) : Weekend plans in Goa
- FirstPost: The Lungi (and its Madras Checks) get a makeover
- Christian Science Monitor : An essay about train travel in London and Mumbai
- India Today Travel Plus: Walking Tours in India
- Home Review: Since April 2011, I have been a contributor to Home Review, an architectural magazine from India. You can see my articles here.
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