Selected Essays
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Voice of Reason: On Anand Patwardhan, The New York Times Magazine
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The Loneliest Man in the World, Hazlitt (This viral essay was later translated to Hindi and Urdu)
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Men At Work: On Martin Scorsese, Hazlitt
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Falling In And Out of Love: On Jean-Luc Godard, Hazlitt
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Man In The Crowd: The Films of Mrinal Sen, The Point (This essay was later re-published in Literary Hub)
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When Satyajit Ray Came To Hollywood, Hazlitt
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Illusion of The Infinite: On Andrei Tarkovsky, The Times Literary Supplement
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Risking My Feelings, Hazlitt
Literature
Manto and Me, Liberties
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The Missing: On Hisham Matar, Hazlitt
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Agha Shahid Ali inside the whale, The Caravan (This essay was later translated to Hindi)
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The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima, The New Yorker
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Martin Amis, Cinephile, Hazlitt
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On Salman Rushdie: Profound Insights And Platitudes, The Guardian
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The Disaster Novelist, The New Republic
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Never At Home: On V.S. Naipaul, The Threepenny Review (Access via JSTOR here)
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The Making Of A Nobel Laureate, The Guardian
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The Neglected Dom Moraes, The Caravan
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On Pankaj Mishra: Anglo-American Delusions, The Guardian
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Natalia Ginzburg’s Radical Clarity, The New Republic
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Modernism in the Age of Market, The Threepenny Review (Access via JSTOR here)
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Where the Air Stands Still, The Nation
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Special Treatment: On Sunjeev Sahota and Brexit novels, The Caravan
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An Ongoing Dream: On Amit Chaudhuri, The Nation
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“Who Is Going To Believe You?”: On The Hanging of Yakub Memon, The Nation
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Zero Types of Ambiguity: Amitav Ghosh’s early novels, The Los Angeles Review of Books
