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