About Me

I’m a writer and editor based in New Delhi. Read more about me and my work here.


Delhi Hectic

A new online “Instagram graphic novel” seeks to puncture Delhi’s poseur pride  ♦ It might…

Sorry, Not Sorry

A group of restaurants in New York caters to Indian palates ♦ If a visitor…

Mission accomplished

An American architect in Delhi ♦ Some of Delhi’s most beautiful buildings sit on foreign…

The big wheezy

Winter may well be gone, but our ashen city’s pall of pollution lingers on. A…

Type Out Delhi

Typographical interventions ♦ A series of “typerventions” spearheaded by Kriti Monga of Turmeric Design and…

Against Extinction

From petting zoos to eco-tours, Victoria, Australia offers many models for wildlife conservation. ♦ As…

Murder most fowl

Tarquin Hall discusses his latest Delhi mystery ♦ For the third of the Vish Puri…

Amritsari Meatwala

Khau gali ♦ [caption id="attachment_929" align="alignright" width="359"] (Photos: Paroma Mukherjee) The market under the Defence…

Stirring the pot

Delhi’s culinary melange ♦ Part of a Time Out Delhi food cover story, this is a short…

Uptown Takedown

Wrestling takes hold in Harlem ♦ Kappa IV students warm up before…

Paradise Garden

Secret Delhi: Shalimar Bagh ♦ There is a scuffed-up, chipped and fractured jewel of a…

Two to dastango

Mahmood Farooqui and Danish Husain ♦ Part of a longer cover story on Delhi’s theatre…

Mother of Invention

Perumal Murugan remembers Amma in his latest book. ♦ Originally published in India Today. I’d…

Portrait of a lady

The last century of Mughal rule comes to life in The Mirror of Beauty, Shamsur…

Thukral & Tagra

Admen, artists, ambassadors ♦ In the ongoing search to furnish India’s contemporary art scene with…

bpb Review: Kampai, Aerocity

Samurai gour-meh. ♦ Leaving aside roadside chow mein, unaffordable five-star hotels, and Delhi’s immortal Aka…

RT Book Reviews

Magazine review ♦ Name: RT Book Reviews Circulation: 70,000 Date of Birth: 1981 Frequency: Monthly…

Force and Composure

Krishen Khanna remembers Satish Gujral, who passed away on March 26, 2020 ♦ Untitled 1953…

Eternal outsider

Abraham Verghese talks about Cutting for Stone and the idea of home ♦ This interview was…

The Butterfly Generation

Palash Krishna Mehrotra on India’s flitty young things ♦ Form shouldn’t always mirror content. Palash…

Kavia’s Kitchen

A hidden find for adventurous foodies ♦ Sau Foota (100 Foot) Road in Chattarpur has a…

The spectacle of books

Notes from the Jaipur Literature Festival ♦ “This is literature as spectacle” — the phrase…

Sakura

Authentic, not atmospheric ♦ It’s been 11 years since Sakura first opened in Delhi. Since…

Objects

Group Show at the Visual Arts Gallery. ♦ This story was originally published in Time…

Driving passion

Three transport museums light up the road ahead ♦ This article is part of a longer…

Holy trinity

Manil Suri on writing the third of his mythological novels ♦ Math professor and writer…

Three Tier

Wonderwall’s first photo show. ♦ This story was originally published in Time Out Delhi.

Smoke House Room

Tripping the bite fantastic ♦ Being high isn’t usually associated with great gastronomic discretion. Smoking…

Time to pretend

There’s a costume for every occasion at Abhiruchi ♦ Read this article as part of…

The Grey Garden

Fabric of our lives ♦ To get to this Hauz Khas Village eatery, you first…

Q&A: Alka Pande

Alka Pande has a finger in many artistic pies. ♦ This story was originally published…

Cracks in the pavement

Setting out to rediscover Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri rejuvenates the genre of city writing ♦ Cities…

News flashback

Anuja Chauhan’s third romantic comedy is set in Delhi of the 1980s ♦ A tall, dark…

Object lessons

Subodh Gupta greets New Yorkers with A Glass of Water ♦ Subodh Gupta’s stainless steel…

Anecdote

Mekhala Bahl at Galerie Romain Rolland. ♦ This story was originally published in Time Out…

Eternal returns

William Dalrymple on researching Return of a King, his history of the First Afghan War ♦…

Step Across the Line

The repetitiveness in Jogen Chowdhury’s works is deceptive. ♦ This story was originally published in…

Like a surgeon

In Abraham Verghese’s debut novel, fate is stitched together with sutures ♦ Abraham Verghese is a…

Eating Clean

Theatrically sanitised restaurant meals, untouched by human hands and wrapped in meters of plastic are…

The Hired Man

Aminatta Forna travels to Croatia for her fourth novel ♦ In her fourth book, Aminatta Forna…

Dystopic Living

Author Samit Basu lays out Delhi’s best-case scenario in his sci-fi novel, and it is…

Hippies vs hipsters

The case for Paharganj ♦ For years, there’s been no stemming the southbound, outward drift…

Consuming passion

Anjum Anand ♦ Anjum Anand served a station full of beefy British fire-fighters naan and…

Graveyard of the Raj

Secret Delhi: Coronation Durbar Park ♦ North of Old Delhi, in a now-desolate field, lies…

Epic tale

Raavan Chhaya is iPad myth lit ♦ A panel from Vishal K…

Embassy Restaurant

Representing Civil Lines. ♦ The Embassy Restaurant in Connaught Place has been around for ages….

The Book of Waswo

The new miniatures from the studio of Waswo X. Waswo are as captivating as his…

Hats and Doctors

Daisy Rockwell’s translation of the late Upendranath Ashk ♦ Daisy Rockwell’s translation of Hindi-Urdu writer Upendranath…

Spiritus mandi

To market, to market ♦ The Defence Colony sabzi and phalwalas are a sonorous lot,…

Burnt offerings

Seasonal rituals ♦ In the narrow confines of Eve’s tailoring shop in Greater Kailash, bunched…

Child Speak/Woman Song

Vasundhara Tewari Broota at Shridharani Gallery ♦ Much like her paintings, the title of Vasundhara Tewari…

Links in the Food Chain

In Indranee Ghosh’s memoir, food becomes a metaphor for inclusion ♦ This story was originally published in…

The Stranger’s Child

Alan Hollinghurst teases out the thoughts behind his character’s smallest actions ♦ The opening image would…

Cheese Chaplin

Quick bite ♦ Did someone say cheese? Cheese Chaplin, tucked into the air-conditioned, office-like basement…