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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

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