political analyses and reportage
Congress Redux? [Prospects of upheaval in India], New Left Review Sidecar, June 2023
[Spanish] [Turkish]
Breathless India [Covid-19 and Capitalism], New Left Review Sidecar, May 2021
[Turkish]
A New Border in the Old Republic [Indian Democracy and Agrarian Struggles], Himal Southasian, April 2021
[German]
The Postcolonial Autumn [Green Revolution and Indian Agrarian Crisis], Spectre, Jan 2021
[Turkish]
literary and cultural criticism
Curious Stranger [Romila Thapar], New Left Review Sidecar, March 2023
[Portuguese]
Hyperdrive [Will Alexander’s Epics of the Surreal], The Nation, January 2023
Border-Crosser [Aijaz Ahmad, 1941-2022], New Left Review Sidecar, April 2022
Fruits of Labour [Revisiting Somnath Hore’s Tebhaga Diaries], The Caravan, January 2022
The Startling Postcolonial Poetics of “Coolitude” [Khal Torabully], The Nation, December 2021
Fragments of Revolution [In Search of India’s Literary Underground], New Left Review Sidecar, December 2021
On the Run [Marxist-Buddhist polymath Rahul Sankrityayan], New Left Review Sidecar, August 2021
[Portuguese]
All the Factory's a Stage [Ramayana, Hindutva, Caste], The New Inquiry, October 2020
[Listen at The School of Commons]
First as Farce, then as Tragedy [Ramayana, Hindutva, Caste], The New Inquiry, August 2020
dispatches and comments
Highway or Fort: Where Does Power Lie? [Non-Violence, Minorities, Indian State], Trolley Times, Feb 2021
[Punjabi; Shahmukhi]
Urban Maoists and Other Enemies of Indian State [Varavara Rao’s Poetry], Verso Blog, December 2020