Why Should Immigrants ‘Respect Our Borders’? The West Never Respected Theirs
Op-Ed arguing for immigration as reparations in The New York Times, June 7, 2019
Article on migrants and immigration in America in Foreign Policy, September/October 2017 issue.
Opinion piece on emigration from America in The New York Times’ Sunday Review, April 21, 2017.
Why Japan is big on the little things
Feature on the detail-oriented beauty of Japan’s culture in Conde Nast Traveller India, March 3, 2017
Feature story about NYC’s most fabulous weed delivery ring in GQ, February 14, 2017
Can a Bombay Strongman Explain Trump?
Op-Ed about understanding Donald Trump through understanding Bal Keshav Thackeray, “who rode to power on a wave of outrageous stories, bluster, lies, bigotry and showmanship” in the New York Times, January 6, 2017
Beyond the maximum: cities may be booming, but who’s invited to the party?
Article on who’s included and who’s excluded in the building of a great city for The Guardian, November 30, 2015
Article on contemporary Mumbai for India Today, October 28, 2015
Travel article on Trinidad and Tobago, Condé Nast Traveller International (originally appeared in October-November issue of Condé Nast Traveller India), August 3, 2015
Papad: At the short end of Bombay’s boom-to-bust cycle
Essay in The Common, May 7, 2015
Essay in Harper’s Magazine, December 2014 issue
Kannada writer Ananthamurthy loved whiskey and a good argument
Tribute to U. R. Ananthamurthy, Scroll.in, Aug 23, 2014
Pearls of Regret: ‘Bombay Stories’ by Saadat Hasan Manto
Book Review in the Sunday Book Review, The New York Times, May 8, 2014
What Are Parents Being Pushy About?
Op-Ed on parents, teaching and schooling in America for The New York Times, February 10, 2014
The ‘Tiger Mom’ Superiority Complex
Essay on the “new racism” for Time Magazine, February 3, 2014
In the Violent Favelas of Brazil
Essay on the reformation of Brazilian favelas for The New York Review of Books, August 15, 2013
Life in the Cellar
Article on illegal basements in New York City for The Nation, April 18, 2013
India’s Speech Impediments
Op-Ed piece on freedom of speech in India for The New York Times, February 5, 2013
India’s War on Its Women
Op-Ed piece on rape crisis in New Delhi for Time Magazine, January 14, 2013
Why Money Can’t Buy an Election
Essay on U.S. presidential election for India Today, November 9, 2012
Sea and be seen
Article on Trinidad and Tobago for Condé Nast Traveller, October/November, 2012
Yoga, American Style
Article on yoga for The New York Times, January 12, 2012
The Outsider
Exclusive interview with Raj Rajaratnam for Newsweek, October 23, 2011
The Asylum Seeker
Article about asylum-seekers embellishing their stories in The New Yorker, August, 2011
The City: New York
Essay on immigration in New York for Newsweek, May 15, 2011
A Cloud Still Hangs Over Bhopal
Op-Ed piece on the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster for The New York Times, December 2, 2009
What They Hate About Mumbai
Op-Ed piece on Mumbai terror attacks for The New York Times, November 28, 2008
The terrorists attacked my city because of its wealth
Essay on Mumbai terror attacks for The Guardian, November 27, 2008
The New Faces of America
Article on immigrant networks for Forbes, May 7, 2007
A Big Stretch
Op-Ed piece on yoga for The New York Times, May 7, 2007
Sonia Gandhi
Profile for the Time 100, May 3, 2007
Lush Life
Article on the Caribbean for Condé Nast Traveler, July 2006
So the Jains, They Have a Problem with Beef in the School Lunches? Who They Gonna Call?
Article about immigrant power broker Alex Martins for The New York Times, October 2, 2005
The Great Awakening
Article about Brooklyn for The New York Times, June 19, 2005
Welcome to Bollywood
Article about Bollywood for National Geographic, February 2005
‘Now We Hate Seeing This Sea’
Commentary on the tsunami disaster for The Wall Street Journal, December 28, 2004
Future on display in ‘Maximum City’
Op-Ed on India for The Baltimore Sun, November 28, 2004
Bollywood Confidential
Essay on Bollywood for The New York Times Magazine, November 14, 2004
Peace in Paradise
Essay on Sri Lanka for Condé Nast Traveler, July 2004
A Fatal Love
A talk on Partition for the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, January 2004
The Meltingest Pot
Article about the Calloway Château in Queens for The New York Times Magazine, October 05, 2003
Runaway:a chronicle of metropolitan transience
Essay on a Bombay runaway for Seminar, August, 2003
Stuck in the Middle in a Very High Place
Review of Samrat Upadhyay’s The Guru of Love for The New York Times Book Review, January 12, 2003
Big Apple tastes better in the dark
Essay on the Great New York Blackout of 2003 for Indian Express, August 16, 2003
Gangsters in Exile
Article on Bombay gangsters for Time Magazine, April 29, 2002