A Selection of Essays and Reviews
Staring into the Voice: On India's Partition and its Literature
The TLS. August 8, 2017
Arundhati Roy's Passionate Masterpiece
The TLS. May 31, 2017
The TLS. February 2, 2017
The TLS. September 21, 2016
Remaking the Homeland. On Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others
The New York Times Book Review. December 26, 201
On Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess
The Guardian. May 31, 2014
A Distaste for Dogmas. On the writing of Saadat Hasan Manto
The TLS. March 14, 2014
A View from the East: In Conversation with Pankaj Mishra
The Brooklyn Rail. January, 2013
Caught in the Net. On Nuruddin Farah's Crossbones
The New York Times Book Review. September 9, 2011
The New York Times Book Review. July 1, 2011
An Idiot's Guide to India. On Slumdog Millionaire
The Guardian. February 21, 2009
No Place Like Home. On Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth
The Guardian. June 6, 2008
Reading Around Calcutta. On the City's Legendary Book Fair
The Guardian. February 27, 2008
Moveable Feast. On Visiting New Haven
The Financial Times. August 2007
Eventual Highs in Old New England
The Financial Times. August 2006
In Conversation: Hirsh Sawhney with Hanif Kureishi
Blair's House of Cards: In Conversation with Clare Short, MP
The Brooklyn Rail. June, 2006
Travelling through Malaysia in a Convoy
Outlook Traveller. May 2006
Happy Valley. On travelling to Himachal's Thirtan Valley
Outlook Traveller. September 2005