interviews
fever dreams and buried truths: siddhartha deb on his book the light at the end of the world, interview for Helter Skelter (september 2023)
‘my novel is a tribute to discovery of india’: anjum hasan on writing history’s angel, interview for The News Minute (september 2023)
christine lai on art in a time of crisis, archiving language, fictional diaries, and her debut novel landscapes, interview for Write or Die magazine (september 2023)
fertile ground in grey spaces: praveena shivram on her book karuppu, interview for Helter Skelter (september 2023)
on circularities, genre, and alien intelligences: martin macinnes on his three novels infinite ground, gathering evidence, and in ascension, interview for Champaca Bookstore (july 2023)
ruth madievsky on immortalizing memories in fiction, intergenerational trauma, and her debut novel all-night pharmacy, interview for Write or Die magazine (july 2023)
katie kitamura on intimacies, video interview for Champaca Bookstore (february 2023)
tiffany tsao on the majesties, video interview for Champaca Bookstore (december 2020)
gautam bhatia on the wall, video interview for Champaca Bookstore (november 2020)
mario santanilla and indie publisher reliable copy on still life -mirrors and windows-, video interview for Champaca Bookstore (september 2020)
reviews & articles
film peaks: finding meaning in banality in ‘somewhere’, article for Film Daze (october 2023)
a reckoning with god in lauren groff’s the vaster wilds, book review for Interlocutor Interviews (september 2023)
the mirror has two faces (print) (online), book recommendation feature for the Deccan Herald (august 2023)
modern ambition & eleanor catton’s birnam wood, book review for Interlocutor Interviews (july 2023)
“imaginations of the future”: three-part series of book recommendations / part one: ecological futures / part two: technological futures / part three: social futures, for Champaca Bookstore (may-june 2023)
several people are typing by calvin kasulke, book review for Champaca Bookstore (october 2021)
the gospel of the eels by patrik svensson, book review for Champaca Bookstore (november 2020)
cantoras by carolina de robertis, book review for Champaca Bookstore (august 2020)
curation notes for select titles in the champaca book subscription, for Champaca Bookstore (print) — samples: to the river by olivia laing; the loneliness of hira barua by arupa patangia kalita; intimacies by katie kitamura (2020-2023)
recapping the yearly champaca book subscription, in the curation themes of translation (2020-2021), travel (2021-2022), and loneliness & connection (2022-2023) for Champaca Bookstore
academic writing & experience
b.a. honours (english lit.), from Azim Premji University; thesis on “the created being in contemporary science fiction”; texts studied: the books never let me go by kazuo ishiguro and borne by jeff vandermeer, and the film blade runner 2049, dir. denis villeneuve (2019)
other writing
author showcase: sally rooney for Azim Premji University’s student-led magazine (print, pg. 1; 2019)
something classic, something contemporary: the haunting of hill house for Azim Premji University’s student-led magazine (print, pg. 17; 2019)
reader’s reports for literary agencies (2021-ongoing, on a freelance basis)
transcriptions of recorded interviews (2022-ongoing, on a freelance basis)
featured in:
most picture 2023: it’s time to let go… or is it?, for Letterboxd Journal (interviewee, 2023)
art pills for six peculiar feelings, for the Soup (contributor, 2020)
growing up on western media as non-western teenagers, by andrea panaligan for Adolescent.net (interviewee, 2019)
nirica s. 
