Selected Writing
Essays
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Vittles // November 2023, Hospitality is not conditional (throw a naan at a racist)
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Orion // November 2023, Spring Has Left Us
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The Audacity // September 2023, Warm Blood
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Longreads // June 2023, Meals for One
Hazlitt // March 2022, Bad Taste
Wasafiri // February 2021, Seamless (Winner, Wasafiri New Writing Prize '20)
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Montez Press // August 2020, On Stillness (published through the Montez Press writers grant, 2020)
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​Longreads // March, 2019, Coming Home, One Word At A Time
Mangal Media // October 2020, Delhi's kebabs: The Taste of Memory
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Interviews & Profiles
The Believer // December 2021, An Interview with Artist Alana Hunt
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Verve // October 2020, Chef Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar's homegrown adventure
Food Writing
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Orion // April 2024,
Stall Economy
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The Baffler // March 2023,
India's Beef with Beef
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Vittles // December 2022, Introduction to Punjab: Food, Music, Resistance
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The Caravan // July 2022, Folk Tales help desert communities prepare for famine
Vittles // May 2022, Indian Biscuits: A story of Indian Biscuits
Whetstone // May 2022, Songs of Survival, The Opposite of Plenty
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The Third Eye // November 2021, How Momo Aunties Changed Delhi
Orion // September 2021, The Ghost Crop of Goa
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Vittles// June 2021, All too much: The Absurdity of the Tandoori Momo
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52 // October 2020, Powder: How custard powder changed India’s sweet tooth
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Vittles // August 2020, Whose food city?​ The Northeastern Restaurants of Humayunpur, Delhi
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Taste // January 2019, The Incredible Story of Bhut Jolokia
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Popula //November 2018, There is no Dalit cuisine (Longreads, Best of Food Writing, 2018)
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Other Feature Writing
FiftyTwo // December 2022, Dear Neighbour
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The Baffler // December 2020, A dispatch from the historic farmers' protests in Punjab
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Lit Hub // October 2020, The strength of Kashmir's literary life
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Mangal Media // May 2020, The commodification of South-Asian identity politics ​
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Roads and Kingdoms // September 2016, Eating Beetles on a Shrinking Island
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Roads and Kingdoms // April 2016, The Bone-setters of Kanpur