An inconvenient truth
Ancient DNA from Rakhigarh
India Today / August 2018
Ancient DNA from Rakhigarh
India Today / August 2018
Bad neighbours
New York Times / August 2001
Deja vu all over again
New York Times / December 2002
the Indo-Bangladesh Chhitmahal exchange
New York Times / July 2015
The Northeast is another country, they do things...
New York Times / May 2019
Born again in India
New York Times / May 2015
Meeting India's most-decorated soldier
GQ India / July 2014
Video nasties from the Gau Raksha Dal
Scroll.in / March 2015
Beef Ban Confusions
International New York Times / March 2015
An essay on the Bengal-Bangladesh border
n+1 / March 2015
Summer in Delhi. I really don't remember when but it was a fine one.
City Limits / May 2006 / [Doc , 22 KB]
Border stories
Sarai Reader / April 2005
Emergency nostalgia. And a nice picture by my father.
Um...Tehelka / December 2012
Corruption nostalgia. And some nice pics from the late lamented Punjab Photo Service of Shankar Mkt.
The India Magazine / May 1996 / [Pdf , 3.48 MB]
Call me a secularist but back in 2000 I hung with the RSS. (A bit fuzzy on the date)
Man's World / April 2000 / [Doc , 33 KB]
A 70s Childhood
Bidoun / April 2010
Fear and Loathing on the tourist trail
Chimurenga / October 2011
Crime & Detective. My favourite magazine
Tank / December 2009 / [Pdf , 1.2 MB]
The Phantom in my closet
Transition / February 2000
My obsession with finding the wreck of a cargo plane that crashed on the 'Hump' in 1943
GEO India / June 2013 / [Pdf , 3.44 MB]
When I loved Jats
Economic and Political Weekly / September 1990 / [Pdf , 574 KB]
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