Writer, Arts Journalist based in Mumbai | Previously: Editor, Mint Lounge; Features Director, Vogue India; Columbia Journalism School | My debut novel is out on HarperCollins India in July 2021. Write to hemali at asuitableagency.com
By launching herself into a new language with her Italian autobiographical book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer JHUMPA LAHIRI has given us her most ambitious creation yet—a new universe of possibilities
Vogue India / February 2016 / Interviews/Profiles / [Pdf , 721 KB]
Why India must participate in the Venice Biennale
The Caravan / June 2015 / Opinion Essay / [Pdf , 239 KB]
An exclusive interview with the novelist JONATHAN FRANZEN at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2014
Vogue India / May 2014 / Interviews/Profiles / [Pdf , 845 KB]
The philosophically-inclined architect behind Studio Mumbai speaks to Anindita Ghose about exporting his vernacular (and award-winning) style
Kinfolk / June 2019 / Interviews/Profiles
Conversations At Large: The author of the acclaimed best-seller Call Me By Your Name returns with a new book of essays in which he examines memory, desire and the creative mind
Mint Lounge / January 2021 / Interviews/Profiles
One of the most vocal Indian artists, Shetty says he doesn’t see a distinction between being an artist and being a citizen
Mint Lounge / March 2021 / Interviews/Profiles
Conversations At Large: Indian-origin writer Avni Doshi discusses diversity and sexism in publishing, and what being shortlisted for the Booker Prize means
Mint Lounge / November 2020 / Interviews/Profiles
As "India's biggest movie star" turns 50 this month, he's on the lookout for the role of his career
Vogue India (cover story) / November 2015 / Interviews/Profiles
The global recession and its impact on media houses is sending clusters of journalists, especially freelancers, to India. What does it mean to be a foreign correspondent in a country consumed with its international image?
Mint Lounge (cover story) / September 2010 / Features
Indian coffee is especially flavourful because it is shade-grown, a fact that domestic coffee growers are only now capitalising on. Is the world finally waking up to Indian coffee?
Mint Lounge (cover story) / September 2011 / Features
One of India's most successful singles dating platforms has just morphed into a community network, putting self-expression over romance. Is love as we knew it in peril?
Mint Lounge (cover story) / February 2018 / Features
Beset by criticism, India’s foremost contemporary art prize takes a break
The Caravan / August 2013 / Opinion Essay
The American feminist collective and other artists on the fringe shine at Anita Dube's radical edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale this year
Mint Lounge / December 2018 / Features
He holds the record for the most expensive Indian artwork ever sold, but S.H RAZA’s artistic journey has been a long and solitary one
Mint Lounge (cover story) / January 2012 / Interviews/Profiles
India’s pre-eminent weaver-artist Monika Correa speaks about her early years, experiments at the loom and partnership with architect Charles Correa
Mint Lounge / January 2020 / Interviews/Profiles
My essay on the Indian art market for Mint's year end issue
Mint / January 2011 / Opinion Essay
Her pixie charm and effervescent spirit may have captivated our hearts, but that youthful face hides a steely determination. Clear the decks, ANUSHKA SHARMA is charging full steam ahead
Vogue India (cover story) / July 2013 / Interviews/Profiles / [Pdf , 1.84 MB]
Five years after her luminous debut propelled her on to the world stage, FREIDA PINTO is everywhere and doing everything at once
Vogue India (cover story) / October 2013 / Interviews/Profiles / [Pdf , 2.06 MB]
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year, NEEL MUKHERJEE’s greatest strength is imagining the lives of others in astonishing detail—but the novelist says that’s just him doing his job
Vogue India / December 2014 / Interviews/Profiles / [Pdf , 367 KB]
A book of film stills that have yet to leave the dark room
Mint Lounge / December 2011 / Opinion Essay
India’s most versatile photographer is pushing his boundaries further. BHARAT SIKKA is up for a creative reconstruction
Vogue India / February 2013 / Opinion Essay / [Pdf , 382 KB]
They go beyond the lexical trappings of the “soccer mom”. These Delhi women have founded a 60-team soccer league for their children
Mint Lounge / June 2010 / Features
How a schoolgirl from Dehdradun became the highest subscribed YouTube channel in India
Mint Lounge / September 2011 / Features
The number of Afghan refugees in Delhi’s Bhogal area are increasing rapidly—so are the Afghan bakeries
Mint Lounge / July 2010 / Features
Writers from North-East India are claiming their share of Indian publishing success
Mint Lounge / November 2009 / Features
Has our collective fear of ageing made the totems and motifs of teenage girls a thing of fetish? As our female celebrities get younger everyday, here's exploring the rise of Girl culture
Vogue India / March 2015 / Opinion Essay / [Pdf , 809 KB]
The artist's Qatar citizenship is only a formality
Mint / March 2010 / Opinion Essay
Cohen's description of his time in Hydra is evidently influenced by his Zen Buddhist leanings
Mint Lounge / July 2018 / Editorial Columns
Of all the feelings I could be plagued by in the car, it is jealousy. I am jealous of those who lose their dog to an accident or to the beautiful fiction of a farm
Mint Lounge / July 2018 / Editorial Columns
A security guard from Mumbai channels Tom Hanks from 'Cast Away' by adopting a stuffed panda as his lockdown companion
Mint Lounge / June 2020 / Editorial Columns
I have always loved the mad eyes and wild postures of a Sunil Das bull. But bidding for it at auction didn't feel right for the times we are in
Mint Lounge / April 2020 / Editorial Columns
When I think of neighbourly love, I only think of those we lived beside as children. Beyond the occasional request for safe-keeping of keys, I haven’t known my current neighbours for years
Mint Lounge / February 2020 / Editorial Columns
We live in an age where it is taboo to correct children who paint the sun purple but the critical parent teaches us invaluable lessons
Mint Lounge / April 2018 / Editorial Columns
It's part of brand Rupi Kaur to be relatable, whereas relatability has never been the mandate for an artist. Why call her something she's not and then judge her by it?
Mint Lounge / March 2018 / Editorial Columns
Beyond the hashtag, the movement has given women in the country a language to speak out
Mint Lounge / October 2018 / Editorial Columns
There are few other countries in the world where poets are celebrated as national heroes, and where monuments to them make for landmarks
Mint Lounge / December 2017 / Editorial Columns
Not the Mughals or the British, the idea of colour as a feature which distinguishes people from one another is older than the epics
Mint Lounge / July 2020 / Editorial Columns
For Bengalis, Tagore's birth date in the Western calendar shifts every year, just like it does for holy festivals
Mint Lounge / May 2020 / Editorial Columns
Weekly takes on everything from Indian contemporary art to mulberry silk pillowcases
Mint Lounge / January 2017 / Editorial Columns
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