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Short Story: "Speedboat"

'The Only City: Bombay in Eighteen Stories' edited by Anindita Ghose, a collection of eighteen new pieces of short fiction that captures the pulse of this always-morphing urban centre.

The Ghost in the Kimono

"The Ghost in the Kimono: Tales of War and Forgotten South-Southeast Asian History" / ผีในชุดกิโมโน : เรื่องเล่าของสงครามกับประวัติศาสตร์เอเชียใต้และเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้ที่ถูกหลงลืม is a collection of many of my essays on WW2, translated into Thai…

"The Women on the Wall"

My essay summarising the Citizenship Movement, aka the CAA-NRC protests in the anthology Our Freedoms: Essays and Stories from India's Best Writers, edited by Nilanjana Roy. "As India faces some…

Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War

The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother’s house for as long as he could remember, ‘beheld but not noticed, as angels are in a frieze of…

Everybody's Friend

A pilgrimage to the military grave of a great-uncle, fallen defending the obsolescent Raj against the oncoming army of imperial Japan.