SelectedWriting

Children’s Literature Joins the Climate Conversation

Mongabay India

16 June 2025

Can Darjeeling Tea Hope for a Climate-Resilient Future?

Fresh Cup Magazine

18 April 2025

Climate Change Hits India’s ‘Champagne of Teas’ Where It Hurts

Fresh Cup Magazine

11 April 2025

Non-Violent Vegetarianism, Holy Cows and Other Myths

Himal Southasian

11 February 2025

The Dispute Over Guava Jelly: What Indian Women’s Cookbooks Tell Us About Their Lives

Locavore

27 January 2025

India’s Plans to ‘Develop’ Great Nicobar Island Threatens Its Unique Wildlife and Indigenous Peoples

The Revelator

4 November 2024

How Tomatoes Went From Object of Suspicion to India's Souring Agent of Choice

Goya Journal

20 September 2024

India’s Abortion Laws Offer Pregnant Women an Illusion of Choice

New Lines Magazine

9 September 2024

Towards Climate-Resilient Coffee in India: The Case for Conserving Native Shade Trees

Sourced Journeys

12 August 2024

Book review: Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh

New Humanist

30 July 2024

Why Women Climate Migrants in Rural India Are Resorting to Hysterectomies

Yarrow Global

11 July 2024

The Incomplete Histories of Women Migrant Caregivers Under the British Empire

Himal Southasian

20 June 2024

Tapping the Potential of Tisanes and Herbal Teas in India

Fresh Cup Magazine

15 May 2024

How Rewilding Can Help Boost Food Security

Rewilding Magazine

27 February 2024

In India, Women’s Seed Conservation Practices Are Making Them Climate Resilient

Ecology & Action

1 November 2023

Songs of Survival: The Cultural Memory that Kept Millets Alive

Locavore

12 October 2023

Opiate Imperialism and the Modern Crisis

Protean Magazine

15 September 2023

In India, Black Baza Champions Sustainability and Smallholder Farmers

Fresh Cup Magazine

12 July 2023

The Community Using Tree-Based Farming to Combat Drought

Rewilding Magazine

6 July 2023

The False Promise of Lab-Grown Meat

Studio ATAO

29 June 2023

Are Clothing Rentals Good News for a Warming Planet?

The Spill

7 June 2023

The Hidden Health Costs of Climate Change Along India’s Coasts

Yarrow Global

3 May 2023

Respectable Lives and Transgressive Tastes

Feminist Food Journal

2 May 2023

Can Permaculture Offer Hope in a Climate-insecure World?

Locavore

17 April 2023

A Cuisine of Peels, Stalks, Bones, and Seeds

Smart Mouth

6 April 2023

In Tamil Nadu, Women Sustain the Revival of a Grain Orphaned by the Green Revolution

Goya Journal

24 January 2023

Break Taboos Now: Insect-Eating Is Already Here

Sliced by Fed

9 January 2023

An Emerging Rice Renaissance in India

Sourced Journeys

6 January 2023

A Timely Archive of India’s Pathbreaking ‘Lady Doctors’

The Chakkar

24 September 2022

The Art, Craft and (Gendered) Labour of Achaar

Sourced Journeys

3 August 2022

Date Palm Jaggery Is My Taste Of Home. It’s Also Disappearing

Chatelaine

15 June 2022

Of Shutki, Ngari and Karuvadu: The Ubiquity and Invisibility of ‘Poor Man’s Fish’ in India

Goya Journal

8 June 2022

War, God & Gandhi: The Unlikely Rise of Soy Nuggets in India

Eaten Magazine, Issue 14

1 June 2022

Other Words and Inner Worlds

The Chakkar

1 June 2022

Colonial Continuities of the ‘Good Coloniser’

Himal Southasian

9 February 2022

Rajma Chawal Is More Than (Everyone’s) Comfort Food

Whetstone Magazine

8 February 2022

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Ditch the Trope or Subvert It

Ask Diem

7 February 2022

Mushrooming No More? The Story of India’s Wild Edible Fungi

Sliced by Fed

27 January 2022

'The White Tiger' is a Searing Indictment of Power, Let Down by the Stereotypes

Stylist

17 January 2022

A Parasocial Love Story: Where the Intimate and the Performative Collide

Wear Your Voice

4 October 2021

The Chair Depicts, But Refuses to Dissect, Institutional Racism in Academic Spaces

The Spill

30 September 2021

Kishwar Chowdhury's Panta Bhat is a Hat-Tip to Culinary History

Goya Journal

10 August 2021

Bordered by Violence

Himal Southasian

20 July 2021

The Infinite Possibilities of Queer Friendships

Well + Good

14 June 2021

The True Cost Of Posto

Whetstone Magazine

20 May 2021

Interrogating the ‘Crisis’ of Migration

Protean Magazine

26 April 2021

Precarity in Times of Pandemic

Bot Populi

1 May 2020

Queer Pleasures of the South Asian Kitchen

Color Bloq

1 March 2020

Centring the Colonised

Himal Southasian

3 January 2020

Selected Writing

Children’s Literature Joins the Climate Conversation

Can Darjeeling Tea Hope for a Climate-Resilient Future?

Climate Change Hits India’s ‘Champagne of Teas’ Where It Hurts

Non-Violent Vegetarianism, Holy Cows and Other Myths

The Dispute Over Guava Jelly: What Indian Women’s Cookbooks Tell Us About Their Lives

India’s Plans to ‘Develop’ Great Nicobar Island Threatens Its Unique Wildlife and Indigenous Peoples

How Tomatoes Went From Object of Suspicion to India's Souring Agent of Choice

India’s Abortion Laws Offer Pregnant Women an Illusion of Choice

Towards Climate-Resilient Coffee in India: The Case for Conserving Native Shade Trees

Book review: Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh

Why Women Climate Migrants in Rural India Are Resorting to Hysterectomies

The Incomplete Histories of Women Migrant Caregivers Under the British Empire

Tapping the Potential of Tisanes and Herbal Teas in India

How Rewilding Can Help Boost Food Security

In India, Women’s Seed Conservation Practices Are Making Them Climate Resilient

Songs of Survival: The Cultural Memory that Kept Millets Alive

Opiate Imperialism and the Modern Crisis

In India, Black Baza Champions Sustainability and Smallholder Farmers

The Community Using Tree-Based Farming to Combat Drought

The False Promise of Lab-Grown Meat

Are Clothing Rentals Good News for a Warming Planet?

The Hidden Health Costs of Climate Change Along India’s Coasts

Respectable Lives and Transgressive Tastes

Can Permaculture Offer Hope in a Climate-insecure World?

A Cuisine of Peels, Stalks, Bones, and Seeds

In Tamil Nadu, Women Sustain the Revival of a Grain Orphaned by the Green Revolution

Break Taboos Now: Insect-Eating Is Already Here

An Emerging Rice Renaissance in India

A Timely Archive of India’s Pathbreaking ‘Lady Doctors’

The Art, Craft and (Gendered) Labour of Achaar

Date Palm Jaggery Is My Taste Of Home. It’s Also Disappearing

Of Shutki, Ngari and Karuvadu: The Ubiquity and Invisibility of ‘Poor Man’s Fish’ in India

War, God & Gandhi: The Unlikely Rise of Soy Nuggets in India

Other Words and Inner Worlds

Colonial Continuities of the ‘Good Coloniser’

Rajma Chawal Is More Than (Everyone’s) Comfort Food

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Ditch the Trope or Subvert It

Mushrooming No More? The Story of India’s Wild Edible Fungi

'The White Tiger' is a Searing Indictment of Power, Let Down by the Stereotypes

A Parasocial Love Story: Where the Intimate and the Performative Collide

The Chair Depicts, But Refuses to Dissect, Institutional Racism in Academic Spaces

Kishwar Chowdhury's Panta Bhat is a Hat-Tip to Culinary History

Bordered by Violence

The Infinite Possibilities of Queer Friendships

The True Cost Of Posto

Interrogating the ‘Crisis’ of Migration

Precarity in Times of Pandemic

Queer Pleasures of the South Asian Kitchen

Centring the Colonised