essays, reportage & interviews

(Personal) Essays + (Pop) Cultural Criticism

• Dangers Untold: Growing Up With Alice’s Wonderland and Sarah’s Labyrinth | Tor
• The Perfect Fit to the Puzzle: Roki, Folktales, and Immersive Storytelling | Can I Play That?
• 20 Years On, What The Fellowship of the Ring Taught Me About Middle-Earth & Morality | The Portalist
• Turning Red and Navigating Messy Mother-Daughter Relationships | Interstellar Flight Magazine
• Netflix’s Dark and the Art of Letting Go| Interstellar Flight Magazine
• Indie Games and Accessibility: A Personal Odyssey: Finding comfort in gaming as a woman | Interstellar Flight Magazine
• Why Do Indians Remain Obsessed With ‘Fair Skin’, Making People Like Me Feel ‘Inadequate’? | Youth Ki Awaaz
• How I Turned My Speech Disability Into My Greatest Strength |Youth Ki Awaaz
• Tim Burton and the Cult of the White Freaks| Her Culture
• Appeasing a Ghostly Legacy| KitchenWitch
• A Night of Fourteen Ghosts: One author’s experience with Bhoot Chaturdashi | KitchenWitch
• Spirit of Beltane: Food and Flora to Honor the Green Man | Kitchen Witch
• The Haunting of Hill House & Beyond | ScareTissue
• “How Did You Learn English?” We’re Sharing Our 7 Successful Techniques to Get Fluent | FluentU
• Snapshots (regd: Covid Crisis) | Blue Marble Review
• Dumbo and the Relevance of Childhood Fantasies: Why We Need To Tell Happy Stories | Interstellar Flight Magazine
• Studio Ghibli And Why We Need Positive Narratives About Our World |Cinema Catharsis
• What Else is There to Say about the Joker? | Interstellar Flight Magazine
• Selena Gomez’s ‘Lose You to Love Me’ is a Powerful Anthem About Toxic Relationships and Finding Yourself Again| Femestella
• Mental Illness, Creativity and Societal Repression: The Sylvia Plath Syndrome| GradeSaver
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Suicide| EyeZine

Reportage

Politics and Pop Culture

• What Is New Wave Science Fiction? | The Portalist
• What Are the Rings of Power? The History and Abilities of Tolkien’s 20 Rings | The Portalist
• What Will the I Am Legend Sequel Be About? | The Portalist
  
• Young Black Woman Shot Dead in Own Home By Police Officer; Officer Charged With Murder| Femestella
• Netflix’s ‘Living Undocumented’ Finally Tackles The Ghastly But True Reality Of Immigration | Femestella
• ‘Pose’ Star Indya Moore’s Heartbreaking Story Is A Reminder Of All The Things Queer Children Miss Out On | Femestella
• Cardi B Celebrated for ‘Bold’ Outfit at Paris Fashion Week — A Look That Would Have Gotten Muslim Parisians Arrested | Femestella
• Mindy Kaling and How Hollywood Gaslights Women of Color | Femestella
• Are Bella Hadid And Kyle The Rapper Dating? Shocking New Details About Their Secret Relationship| YourTango
  

Local Events

• Michael Ondaatje And Anil’s Ghost | Zee Jaipur Literary Festival 2018
• rupi kaur on ‘milk & honey’| Zee Jaipur Literary Festival 2018
• A Symphony of Visuals: review of art exhibition ‘We Do Not Want To Draw The Line’, at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture| The Statesman
• A tête-à-tête with magician Neel Madhav|The Statesman
• Bookaroo Literary Festival|The Statesman
• Smoking In College Campuses| EyeZine

My earlier essays, opinion pieces and cultural criticism have appeared in The Statesman, Quail Bell Magazine, Culture Cult, Redefy, Bengal Write Ahead (anthology), among others.

Interviews

• Interview with Orijit Sen, Graphic Novelist & Artist

• Folklore, Magic Systems, and Anthropology |Interview with M.A. Carrick, author of The Mask of Mirrors| Interstellar Flight Magazine

• Lisa Marie Basile: on magic, writing and spellcraft
• Interview with Writer Sweta Srivastava Vikram
• Urvashi Butalia: On Feminist Publishing, Diversity and Activism| Zee Jaipur Literary Festival 2018
• Paresh Tiwari: On Haiku, Hybrid Poetry| Quail Bell Magazine
• Artist Profile: A tete a tete with Olaf Van Cleef| The Statesman
• Jayant Kripalani: “Always Reinventing”| The Statesman
• Ipsita Roy Chakraverti : Magic, Wicca & Feminism| The Statesman
• Jeet Thayil: Poetry & Ghosts in Translation| The Statesman
• 5 minutes with Meggie Royer: Faerytales, Superstitions & Pancakes| Winter Tangerine Review
• Kadak Collective: On Comics, Politics and Feminism| EyeZine
• Inedible India: On Comic Satire, Politics And More| EyeZine
• FemPositive: On FeministReads and Feminist Positivity| EyeZine
• Kanchana Banerjee: “Emotional Abuse Is Rampant in Affluent Indian Homes”|Open Road Review
• Meghna Pant: On Writing, Travel & Financial Journalism| Open Road Review