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Selected Writing

Environment

India’s Plans to ‘Develop’ Great Nicobar Island Threatens Its Unique Wildlife and Indigenous Peoples

The Revelator

4 November 2024

Food and Sustainability

How Tomatoes Went From Object of Suspicion to India's Souring Agent of Choice

Goya Journal

20 September 2024

Gender and Sexuality

India’s Abortion Laws Offer Pregnant Women an Illusion of Choice

New Lines Magazine

9 September 2024

Food and Sustainability

Towards Climate-Resilient Coffee in India: The Case for Conserving Native Shade Trees

Sourced Journeys

12 August 2024

Book Review

Book review: Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh

New Humanist

30 July 2024

Book Review

The Incomplete Histories of Women Migrant Caregivers Under the British Empire

Himal Southasian

20 June 2024

Food and Sustainability

Tapping the Potential of Tisanes and Herbal Teas in India

Fresh Cup Magazine

15 May 2024

Food and Sustainability

How Rewilding Can Help Boost Food Security

Rewilding Magazine

27 February 2024

Food and Sustainability

In India, Women’s Seed Conservation Practices Are Making Them Climate Resilient

Ecology & Action

1 November 2023

Food and Sustainability

Songs of Survival: The Cultural Memory that Kept Millets Alive

Locavore

12 October 2023

Book Review

Opiate Imperialism and the Modern Crisis

Protean Magazine

15 September 2023

Food and Sustainability

In India, Black Baza Champions Sustainability and Smallholder Farmers

Fresh Cup Magazine

12 July 2023

Food and Sustainability

The Community Using Tree-Based Farming to Combat Drought

Rewilding Magazine

6 July 2023

Food and Sustainability

The False Promise of Lab-Grown Meat

Studio ATAO

29 June 2023

Environment and Sustainability

Are Clothing Rentals Good News for a Warming Planet?

The Spill

7 June 2023

Gender and Sexuality

The Hidden Health Costs of Climate Change Along India’s Coasts

Yarrow Global

3 May 2023

Food and Sustainability

Respectable Lives and Transgressive Tastes

Feminist Food Journal

2 May 2023

Food and Sustainability

Can Permaculture Offer Hope in a Climate-insecure World?

Locavore

17 April 2023

Food and Sustainability

A Cuisine of Peels, Stalks, Bones, and Seeds

Smart Mouth

6 April 2023

Food and Sustainability

In Tamil Nadu, Women Sustain the Revival of a Grain Orphaned by the Green Revolution

Goya Journal

24 January 2023

Food and Sustainability

How Workers Kept Alive India’s Oldest Surviving Coffee Chain

Go Fund Beans

23 January 2023

Food and Sustainability

Break Taboos Now: Insect-Eating Is Already Here

Sliced by Fed

9 January 2023

Food and Sustainability

An Emerging Rice Renaissance in India

Sourced Journeys

6 January 2023

Food and Sustainability

The Pickle Sandwiches of India

Serious Sandwiches

9 December 2022

Book Review

A Timely Archive of India’s Pathbreaking ‘Lady Doctors’

The Chakkar

24 September 2022

Food and Sustainability

The Art, Craft and (Gendered) Labour of Achaar

Sourced Journeys

3 August 2022

Food and Sustainability

Date Palm Jaggery Is My Taste Of Home. It’s Also Disappearing

Chatelaine

15 June 2022

Food and Sustainability

Of Shutki, Ngari and Karuvadu: The Ubiquity and Invisibility of ‘Poor Man’s Fish’ in India

Goya Journal

8 June 2022

Book Review

Other Words and Inner Worlds

The Chakkar

1 June 2022

Food and Sustainability

War, God & Gandhi: The Unlikely Rise of Soy Nuggets in India

Eaten Magazine, Issue 14

1 June 2022

Book Review

Other Words and Inner Worlds

The Chakkar

1 June 2022

Book Review

Colonial Continuities of the ‘Good Coloniser’

Himal Southasian

9 February 2022

Food and Sustainability

Rajma Chawal Is More Than (Everyone’s) Comfort Food

Whetstone Magazine

8 February 2022

Gender and Sexuality

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Ditch the Trope or Subvert It

Ask Diem

7 February 2022

Food and Sustainability

Mushrooming No More? The Story of India’s Wild Edible Fungi

Sliced by Fed

27 January 2022

Culture

'The White Tiger' is a Searing Indictment of Power, Let Down by the Stereotypes

Stylist

17 January 2022

Culture

A Parasocial Love Story: Where the Intimate and the Performative Collide

Wear Your Voice

4 October 2021

Culture

The Chair Depicts, But Refuses to Dissect, Institutional Racism in Academic Spaces

The Spill

30 September 2021

Food and Sustainability

Kishwar Chowdhury's Panta Bhat is a Hat-Tip to Culinary History

Goya Journal

10 August 2021

Book Review

Bordered by Violence

Himal Southasian

20 July 2021

Food and Sustainability

Reading Beyond the Tea Leaves

Go Fund Beans

12 July 2021

Gender and Sexuality

The Infinite Possibilities of Queer Friendships

Well + Good

14 June 2021

Food and Sustainability

The True Cost Of Posto

Whetstone Magazine

20 May 2021

Book Review

Interrogating the ‘Crisis’ of Migration

Protean Magazine

26 April 2021

Culture

The Rise of Lesbian Period Dramas (and the Shrinking Space for Other Queer Stories)

Long Wharf Theatre

8 April 2021

Culture

Netflix’s Betty Broderick Story, Gaslighting, and “Angry Women”

Stylist

1 September 2020

Technology

Precarity in Times of Pandemic

Bot Populi

1 May 2020

Food and Sustainability

Queer Pleasures of the South Asian Kitchen

Color Bloq

1 March 2020

Book Review

Centring the Colonised

Himal Southasian

3 January 2020

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