ESSAYS: Memory's Savour
The link between my mother's memories and my own
The Indian Quarterly (IQ) / January 2015
Managing Editor, The Indian Quarterly. Formerly Editor, Time Out Delhi. Reach me at avtar1@gmail.com
The link between my mother's memories and my own
The Indian Quarterly (IQ) / January 2015
On the birth of my child
Time Out Delhi / May 2008 / [Pdf , 78.6 KB]
On the closing of Time Out Delhi
Time Out Delhi / August 2014 / [Pdf , 854 KB]
About what Punjabis on either side of the international border share
Seminar / April 2012
On my parents' Delhi, and mine
Seminar / December 2011
A trip back to my family's village in Punjab
Man's World India / February 2002 / [Pdf , 395 KB]
About the collection of short stories by Pakistani author Daniyal Mueenuddin
Biblio: A Review of Books / February 2009 / [Pdf , 59.3 KB]
The first book in the Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh
Time Out Delhi / June 2008 / [Pdf , 992 KB]
A review of Delhi Noir
Biblio: A Review of Books / September 2010 / [Pdf , 69 KB]
A review of a great collection of writing
Outlook / April 2010
About Aatish Taseer
Time Out Delhi / April 2009 / [Pdf , 690 KB]
A review of Murzban Shroff's Breathless in Bombay
Biblio: A Review of Books / March 2008 / [Pdf , 56.8 KB]
On the gains of another Delhi election
Time Out Delhi / January 2014 / [Pdf , 618 KB]
On the need for the electorate to engage with the elections
Time Out Delhi / December 2013 / [Pdf , 548 KB]
On the strange need of Delhi's powerful to claim protection from those they represent
Time Out Delhi / August 2013 / [Pdf , 521 KB]
On the need to remember the riots of 1984
Time Out Delhi / May 2013 / [Pdf , 550 KB]
On the best time of year to claim Delhi
Time Out Delhi / March 2013 / [Pdf , 734 KB]
On what the government can do about women's security in Delhi. And what it can't, and shouldn't do
Time Out Delhi / January 2013 / [Pdf , 628 KB]
On bibliophilia and its comforts
Time Out Delhi / December 2012 / [Pdf , 590 KB]
On turning 40
Time Out Delhi / October 2012 / [Pdf , 703 KB]
On Time Out's seventh anniversary
Time Out Delhi / September 2012 / [Pdf , 662 KB]
On using paternity leave to start reading, and writing, anew
Time Out Delhi / July 2008 / [Pdf , 152 KB]
A trip back to Jakarta
Outlook Traveller / March 2011
A visit to New Zealand
Outlook Traveller / February 2013
A visit to the US's Pacific Northwest
Outlook Traveller / March 2012
A visit to the Czech Republic
Outlook Traveller / July 2011
A trip to Iberia
Man's World India / December 2002 / [Pdf , 1000 KB]
A trip along the length of the country
Man's World India / February 2000 / [Pdf , 664 KB]
The first in a series on how people watch the World Cup
Tehelka / March 2011
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