
Selected Writing
Essays
Hazlitt // March 2022, Bad Taste
Wasafiri // February 2021, Seamless (Winner, Wasafiri New Writing Prize '20)
Longreads // March, 2019, Coming Home, One Word At A Time
Montez Press // August 2020, On Stillness (published through the Montez Press writers grant, 2020)
Mangal Media // October 2020, Delhi's kebabs: The Taste of Memory
Mangal Media // May 2020, The commodification of South-Asian identity politics
Interviews & Profiles
The Believer // December 2021, An Interview with Artist Alana Hunt
Verve // October 2020, Profile: Chef Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar's homegrown adventure
Food Writing
Vittles // May 2022, Indian Biscuits: A story of Indian Biscuits
Whetstone // May 2022, Songs of Survival
Whestone // May 2022, The Opposite of Plenty
The Third Eye // November 2021, How Momo Aunties Changed Delhi
Orion // September 2021, The Ghost Crop of Goa
Vittles// June 2021, All too much: The Absurdity of the Tandoori Momo
The Baffler // December 2020, A dispatch from the historic farmers' protests in Punjab
52 // October 2020, Powder: How custard powder changed India’s sweet tooth
Atlas Obscura // September 2020, A Forgotten Holocaust Is Missing From Indian Food Stories (Nominated for the IACP award, 2021)
Vittles // August 2020, Whose food city? The Northeastern Restaurants of Humayunpur, Delhi
Eater // February 2019, The World's Most Expensive Spice is on the Verge of Disappearing (Conde Nast Best Food Writing, 2019)
Taste // January 2019, The Incredible Story of Bhut Jolokia
Popula //November 2018, There is no Dalit cuisine (Longreads, Best of Food Writing, 2018)
TASTE // April 2018, At the Rooh-Afza factory
Other Reporting
The Word // November 2017, Neighbourhood watch: Reimagining Brussels I, Reimagining Brussels II
Scroll, Internazionale // April 2017, To South Asian immigrants in Rome, cricket is more than a competitive sport
Roads and Kingdoms // September 2016, Eating Beetles on a Shrinking Island
Roads and Kingdoms // April 2016, The Bone-setters of Kanpur