India's Vicious Patriarchy
A gruesome rape-murder. Five rapists. A movement to let them go scot-free.
The Atlantic / April 2018
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A gruesome rape-murder. Five rapists. A movement to let them go scot-free.
The Atlantic / April 2018
They're representative.
Financial Times / April 2018
On 'Padmaavat.'
n+1 / March 2018
Notes on a grubby landmark.
Roads & Kingdoms / March 2018
A coat, a hat and a gun.
Scroll / March 2018
On a new translation of Rahi Masoom Raza's classic novel.
Brown Paper Bag / February 2018
Perumal Murugan's goat novel.
Scroll / February 2018
Colaba, Colaba.
Brown Paper Bag / February 2018
A Zoroastrian 'Return to Roots' programme for diaspora grapples with what it means to be young and of very old faith.
Mint Lounge / January 2018
Hello, Kantaro.
http://brownpaperbag.in/mumbai/intel/bpbspine-a-love-letter-to-japanese-food-shows/ / January 2018
On the politics of the Hindi movie 'Newton.'
Foreign Policy / December 2017
The power and pleasure of homo unium libris.
Mint Lounge / December 2018
On James Scott and Upinder Singh
Scroll / November 2017
For Andrea Pirlo
Mumbai Mirror / November 2017
An air.
Mumbai Mirror / November 2017
On Stefan Huebner's book.
Economic & Political Weekly / October 2017
Is sport civilised or barbaric?
Mumbai Mirror / October 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai and cricketing democracy.
Mumbai Mirror / October 2017
The twentieth century lives to fight another day
Mumbai Mirror / October 2017
Politics, pragmatism and the football club.
Mumbai Mirror / October 2017
Kaepernick
Mumbai Mirror / September 2017
Cinema and cyber-bullying.
Mumbai Mirror / September 2017
And football's patchy history in India.
Mumbai Mirror / September 2017
Thank goodness.
Mumbai Mirror / September 2017
Football without states
Mumbai Mirror / August 2017
In Byculla.
Mint Lounge / September 2017
On PV Sindu
Mumbai Mirror / August 2017
On chess and Nabokov
Mumbai Mirror / August 2017
It's August 15.
Mumbai Mirror / August 2017
Orhan Pamuk.
Mint Lounge / September 2017
On 'The Wall Of Storms'
Strange Horizons / September 2017
The men we'll remember when we see them at a World Cup
Mumbai Mirror / September 2017
Quick thoughts on Icarus and sport as pharmacologically enhanced entertainment.
Mumbai Mirror / August 2017
On Kamila Shamsie's Antigone.
Mint Lounge / August 2017
New hatreds.
The Atlantic / July 2017
Without fear.
Mumbai Mirror / July 2017
Thinking of women's bodies as liabilities.
Mumbai Mirror / July 2017
About Pakistan in the 1990s.
Mint Lounge / June 2017
A prank review of P&P for Mint's Austen party
Mint Lounge / January 2017
'Dangal' and rage as the sportsman's fuel.
Mumbai Mirror / January 2017
A media round-up for The Caravan
The Caravan / December 2016
The twentieth century erasing itself.
Mumbai Mirror / December 2016
What now is a difficult question to ask, let alone answer.
Mumbai Mirror / December 2016
On Anuk Arudprasagam's debut novel.
Mint Lounge / November 2016
Is sport really warfare by other means?
Mumbai Mirror / December 2016
Fairytales.
Mumbai Mirror / November 2016
What will the world look like without gully cricket?
The Cricket Monthly / November 2016
Sania Mirza and the masculine ego, part n
Mumbai Mirror / October 2016
MS Dhoni, Anurag Thakur, and cricket's fantasia
Mumbai Mirror / October 2016
On Tim Parks' book of essays.
Mint Lounge / September 2016
Disability is a human-rights story. So is sport.
Mumbai Mirror / September 2016
Zlatan.
Mumbai Mirror / August 2016
What do Olympic athletes owe to their country?
Mumbai Mirror / August 2016
Writing, wrestling, and the Indian dream.
Mumbai Mirror / August 2016
Football and referenda.
Mumbai Mirror / July 2016
Being wrong about Cristiano Ronaldo
Mumbai Mirror / June 2016
Farewell to Muhammad Ali
Mumbai Mirror / June 2016
On revisiting the ghosts of the 1990s.
Mumbai Mirror / May 2016
Leicester City + Jorge Luis Borges
Mumbai Mirror / May 2016
Migrant labour and Qatar, 1/n
Mumbai Mirror / April 2016
Whether the change sustains remains to be seen.
Financial Times / March 2016
On athletes changed by history.
Mumbai Mirror / March 2016
On "Incarnations" and related affairs
Mint Lounge / March 2016
Can you have dope-free sports and televised global spectacles at the same time?
Mumbai Mirror / March 2016
The infuriating MS Dhoni.
Mumbai Mirror / March 2016
On Jhumpa Lahiri's Italian book.
Mint Lounge / February 2016
Let's keep comparisons with the IPL far away from the Pakistan Super League.
Mumbai Mirror / February 2016
New sports column: Sania Mirza is finally the flavour of the season.
Mumbai Mirror / February 2016
A grim year for media freedom.
The Caravan / December 2015
On Shakespeare's global appeal
Mint Lounge / December 2015
On the stardom of MS Dhoni
The Nightwatchman / December 2015 / [Pdf , 121 KB]
An interview with Siddharth Dube
Mint Lounge / November 2015
A brisk and authoritative sports history.
Mint Lounge / October 2015
Why It Took The Caravan Five Years To Put A Woman On Its Cover
The Caravan / Vantage / September 2015
Elizabeth Gilbert writes a self-help guide about creativity.
Mint Lounge / September 2015
An interview with Karthika Nair about her book of poetry, "Until the Lions."
Mint Lounge / September 2015
The modern cricket commercial.
The Cricket Monthly / August 2015
On Anuja Chauhan's new novel.
Mint Lounge / May 2015
On Out of Print quarterly's special edition on sexual violence
Mint Lounge / April 2015
Not drinking.
Vogue / February 2015 / [Pdf , 276 KB]
Goodbye to a gambler
http://www.caravanmagazine.in/vantage/reckless-calm-mahendra-singh-dhoni / January 2015
On David Mitchell's "The Bone Clocks."
Mint / October 2014
Mario in the World Cup, and the world.
Mint / June 2014
Someone has sliced open football’s hour-glass, and the sand has come pouring out on to the streets.
Roads and Kingdoms / May 2014
India's parliamentary elections are a creakingly patriarchal affair
The Caravan / May 2014
Sachin Tendulkar retires.
Wisden India / October 2013 / [Pdf , 608 KB]
On finding, losing and rediscovering Sridevi.
Mint Lounge / October 2012
On railway history at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Bombay.
Mint Lounge / January 2013
Two survivors of the Bombay riots of 1992-'93, still seeking justice, look back on the last 20 years.
Mint Lounge / December 2012
All-female crowds.
The Run of Play / October 2011
On concerts in Bombay's suburban stations.
Mint Lounge / October 2012
Football is a place to put our memories away.
The Run of Play / September 2011
Watching Champions' League football in the middle of the night
The Run of Play / March 2011
Is Xavi pretending to be video-game Xavi?
The Run of Play / February 2011
Loving, and hating, pigeons in Bombay.
Mint Lounge / October 2012
In the uttermost east of Mumbai, walking Mumbai's salt pans.
Mint Lounge / October 2011
On suffering and consolation
The Run of Play / September 2010
Why Pele stands outside history
The Run of Play / August 2010
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