WRITING
Books | Anthologies | Other Selected Writing
BOOKS
ANTHOLOGIES
The Book of Dog (HarperCollins India, 2022)
Our Freedoms: Essays and Stories from India's best writers (Juggernaut, 2021)
India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches (Routledge, 2019)
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (University of California Press, 2019)
Looking Back: The 1947 Partition of India 70 Years On (Orient Black Swan, 2017)
OTHER SELECTED WRITING
The Small h history of Life (Wasafiri, 2023)
On Transforming Oral History Into Historical Fiction (LitHub, 2023)
Literary Lineage: Excavating a linguistic, physical, and emotional vocabulary of Partition (Desi Books, 2022)
Why Partition feels so potent and personal even 75 years later (The Times of India, 2022)
Is reconciliation still possible for India and Pakistan, 75 years after Partition? (The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 2022)
'Not all inheritances from Partition are traumatic.’ Some stories are ‘celebrations’ too (The Print, 2022)
Remembering to forget (Hindustan Times, 2022)
Museum of Material Memory (International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University, 2021)
The underground Congress radio during freedom struggle and 22-yr-old woman behind its voice (The Print, 2021)
With face to face interviews ruled out during the pandemic, how are oral historians coping (Scroll, 2020)
When the 1897 bubonic plague ravaged India (Mint Lounge, 2020)
The Good Samaritans of 4, Fane Road (Mint Lounge, 2020)
On the trail of Guru Nanak Dev’s travels from Tibet to Iran (Indian Express, 2019)
A History of Faith Through A Temple Complex In Pakistan (Travel + Leisure India, 2019)
The Partition generation that migrated to Britain is in no-man’s land when it comes to belonging (Scroll, 2019)
Meet the British-born Sikh publishers whose books nurture the legacy of both the Punjabs (Scroll,2019)
The canny poster propaganda used by Japan in WWII (Scroll, 2019)
Exploring the stories, legends, and myths of Lahore (Indian Express, 2018)
A teenager traces her Indian great-great grandmother’s life as an indentured labourer in Fiji (Scroll, 2018)
Seventy-one years on, the Partition is inflicting fresh trauma – on those who document its horrors (Scroll, 2018)
How my book brought together two families, divided by Partition and united by a house (Scroll, 2017)
Kapur and Kapoor: Two friends survived Partition and changed the way Indians drank tea and coffee (Scroll, 2017)
Jamun: The humble fruit that holds a special place in India’s history and mythology (Scroll, 2016)
If there's a heaven, it’s just opened its first independent bookshop (Scroll, 2016)
I don’t love Delhi: Meet the capital’s most compelling chronicler, Mayank Austen Soofi (Scroll, 2016)
How Bahrisons, Delhi has been romancing books since 1953 (Scroll, 2015)