“A literary mixtape [with] perfect flow and variety.” — The New York Times, March 2016 House of SpeakEasy continues its electrifying 2025 season at Joe’s Pub on May 13 with a night of fresh, original storytelling from four celebrated writers. Inspired by the theme “Let the Great World Spin,” each author will take the stage… Read more »
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Train Dreams
I’m lucky to have an essay of mine published as the Weekend Essay at the New Yorker. Please read the piece here. I have also compiled a few images from my trip in my latest Substack newsletter. Here’s an image that I was unable to include in the album, of Bihari migrant workers from… Read more »
Happy Pub Day
Feb 11. Happy pub day. The paperback of A Time Outside This Time comes out today. When the hardcover was published, The New Yorker described the book as “a shimmering assault on the Zeitgeist.” Also, it is my father’s birth anniversary today. Here is a link to a piece in Granta magazine; the piece was… Read more »
Paperback Row
New York Times Book Review, February 9, 2025.
At the Brooklyn Public Library, with Katie Kitamura
RSVP
The Hindu names My Beloved Life Among the Best Books of 2024
Here is the link to the story in The Hindu. And this is the New Yorker magazine’s recommendation from its 2024 list:
Fall Dates
Please go here for the complete post on Substack but here are my Fall dates: Sept 13, 2024, Tivoli…………Talk titled “Reading and Writing in the Anthropocene,” A Public Space Weekend Retreat Sept 21,2024, Seattle………..In conversation with Alka Kurian about My Beloved Life, JLF Seattle Sept 29, 2024, Brooklyn……….Noon panel on “Writing Our Histories,”… Read more »
Lethal Heat
I have a piece in The Guardian on the election results asking if we can have democracy if temperatures continue to rise. The crucial point to be noted here is that the heat did not figure at all among the thundering sentiments delivered from the dais by the candidates. The prominent environmentalist Ashish Kothari told… Read more »
Without Death, There is No Art
In which I reveal all my secrets. How did I come to write My Beloved Life. For @Scroll. The last exchange I had with my father was on the morning of March 7 last year. That same morning, I had learned from a phone call that I had been awarded a fellowship at the… Read more »
India Votes
My little paean to current Indian politics is presented during this interview with Al Jazeera. A few days ago an Indian newspaper asked if I could recommend a literary text that shed light on Indian elections. I wrote back that in my new novel My Beloved Life, I have put a scene that… Read more »