Take me down to Kabul city
An interview with Taran Khan, author of 'Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul'
Mint Lounge / February 2020
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An interview with Taran Khan, author of 'Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul'
Mint Lounge / February 2020
I spoke to the smooth-talking stylist about his old novel, new novel and the city in which both are set
Mint Lounge / February 2020
A review of Rajat Ubhaykar's engaging travelogue
Mint Lounge / November 2019
On a fascinating new book that outlines Tokyo's transformation through the prism of time, memory and loss
Mint Lounge / September 2019
A short review of Easterine Kire's book on the tribes of Nagaland
Mint Lounge / September 2019
Contracts For Creators, a free-of-cost initiative, is lending a helping hand to freelance artists who struggle with exploitative contracts
Mint Lounge / August 2019
Deadly yorkers, gorgeous cover drives and a final to end all finals: a subjective summary of the tournament
Mint Lounge / July 2019
A review of 'Upon A Sleepless Isle', a Sri Lanka travel book by Andrew Fidel Fernando
Mint Lounge / July 2019
A short piece on the compassionate and irascible Kenyan writer Binyvanaga Wainana, who passed away in May 2019
Mint Lounge / June 2019
In this two-page personal essay for Lounge's cricket World Cup special, I look at my life through the prism of past tournaments
Mint Lounge / June 2019
A short essay on poet Dom Moares' prose-writing, based on two new collections of his literary reportage
Mint Lounge / May 2019
I went to Chuchuyimlang village in Nagaland's Mokokchung district to report this three-page cover story about what may be the country's unlikeliest Gandhi ashram
Mint Lounge / March 2019
Landscape, demon, bird and shrine—an essay on trying to unpeel the layers of inscrutable Japan through the intricate art of woodblock printing
Mint Lounge / December 2018
A review of the former First Lady's memoir, "Becoming"
Mint Lounge / December 2018
A review of historian Peter Frankopan's book, The New Silk Roads
Mint Lounge / November 2018
About Wild Kaapi, a Bengaluru-based company that is trying to link coffee and biodiversity conservation
Mint Lounge / November 2018
A long cover-story on how a remote island in the Andaman Sea has produced some of India's most promising track cyclists
Mint Lounge / October 2018
For the paper's British summer sports special, I wrote about London, cricket and immigrant loyalties
Mint Lounge / June 2018
An attempt to distil a country in a 1000 words
The Hindu Sunday Magazine / May 2018
On the leopards and humans of Bera in Rajasthan, where man-animal conflict is largely absent
Mint Lounge / April 2018
Making a case for afternoon napping while on holiday
The Hindu Sunday Magazine / April 2018
Broadcast economics and a shrinking Cricket World Cup
Mint on Sunday / April 2018
A review of the Austrian novelist's collection of short travel vignettes
Scroll / March 2018
Part essay on the man himself, part review of his memoir A Century Is Not Enough
Mint on Sunday / March 2018
A bit of fun with travel writing cliche bingo
The Hindu Sunday Magazine / February 2018
A review of cricketer turned analyst Manjrekar's arresting autobiography
Mint on Sunday / January 2018
Loathing and loving the marauder from Matara
Mint on Sunday / December 2017
A personal essay on American writer Paul Bowles and his beloved Tangier
Mint on Sunday / November 2017
A tribute to Ashish Nehra
Mint on Sunday / November 2017
Looking for an endemic cat on a remote Japanese island
Mint on Sunday / September 2017
The king of Rome hangs his boots
Sportskeeda / June 2017
Adventure and sloth at Neemrana's beautiful Rishikesh property
National Geographic Traveller India / October 2017
A piece on Ghent's discreet charms, and why it scores over Bruges (pages 36-37 in the magazine/pages 8-9 in the web preview)
National Geographic Traveller India / April 2014
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