A Selection of Essays and Reviews
The TLS, September 2023
The TLS, May 2020
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Rewind, Push Play
Harvard Review, June 2019
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The TLS, February 2019
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The TLS, June 2018
Staring into the Voice: On India's Partition and its Literature
The TLS. August 8, 2017
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The TLS. May 31, 2017
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The TLS. February 2, 2017
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Remaking the Homeland. On Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others
The New York Times Book Review. December 26, 2014
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On Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess
The Guardian. May 31, 2014
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A Distaste for Dogmas. On the writing of Saadat Hasan Manto
The TLS. March 14, 2014
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A View from the East: In Conversation with Pankaj Mishra
The Brooklyn Rail. January, 2013
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Caught in the Net. On Nuruddin Farah's Crossbones
The New York Times Book Review. September 9, 2011
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The New York Times Book Review. July 1, 2011
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An Idiot's Guide to India. On Slumdog Millionaire
The Guardian. February 21, 2009
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No Place Like Home. On Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth
The Guardian. June 6, 2008
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Reading Around Calcutta. On the City's Legendary Book Fair
The Guardian. February 27, 2008
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Moveable Feast. On Visiting New Haven
The Financial Times. August 2007
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Eventual Highs in Old New England
The Financial Times. August 2006
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In Conversation: Hirsh Sawhney with Hanif Kureishi
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Blair's House of Cards: In Conversation with Clare Short, MP
The Brooklyn Rail. June, 2006
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Travelling through Malaysia in a Convoy
Outlook Traveller. May 2006
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Happy Valley. On travelling to Himachal's Thirtan Valley
Outlook Traveller. September 2005