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The Essentials:

Trying to Escape the Trap of Digital Productivity, Catapult Magazine

The Favourite Patient, Hazlitt

Sex in the Indian City (co-authored with Sonaksha), The Nib (Cities Issue)

Where The Wild Things Were (co-authored with Shivangini Tandon), The Indian Express Sunday Eye

My Failed Attempt at Illness-Chic Racked

If we bring our loneliness to the internet, what do we take away? Deep Dives

Social Butterfly Verve Magazine (cover story, a profile of Sobhita Dhulipala)

 

Essays:

The Year in Practice Walks, Hazlitt, December 2023

The Favourite Patient, Hazlitt, September 2023

Think Like Moss: Lessons in Ecology from The Forest Elders The Kodai Chronicle Issue 10, May 2023

Pining for Placefulness Wonderground Issue 4, 2022

Trying to Escape the Trap of Digital Productivity Catapult Magazine, August 2022

The Power of ‘Placefulness’: The Pines of Kodaikanal, The Kodai Chronicle, December 2021

A Traveller’s Break from Social Media: Where Does It Lead? National Geographic Traveller Magazine India, January 2020

My Failed Attempt at Illness-Chic Racked, October 2017

Shame, Xenophobia and my Pressure Cooker Extra Crispy, July 2017

If we bring our loneliness to the internet, what do we take away? Deep Dives, March 2017

 

Lists:

7 Books to Help You Resist Productivity Culture, Electric Literature, May 2022

7 Indian Women Writers You Should Be Reading, Electric Literature, September 2021

I’m Chronically Sick, And These Are My Best Tips For A Vibrant Sex Life BuzzFeed, May 2021

On illness, uncertainty and hope The Alipore Post, December 2020

From ‘Sick’ to ‘We That Are Young’: The Ultimate Women-Centric Reading List from 2018 The Swaddle, December 2018

How Not To Be A Dick In Goa This New Year’s BuzzFeed, December 2016

Profiles:

Meet the indigenous artist behind South Asia’s first feminist library Vogue India (Aqui Thami), March 2021

Social Butterfly Verve Magazine (cover story, Sobhita Dhulipala), Aug-Sept 2019

What Does the Woman in the Panel Want? Yahoo! Originals (Chitra Ganesh), August 2014

Reporting and features:

Where The Wild Things Were (co-authored with Shivangini Tandon), The Indian Express Sunday Eye, March 2023

Sex in the Indian City (co-authored with Sonaksha), The Nib (Cities Issue), September 2022

How do you have sex in a pandemic? Here’s how Indians are navigating new terrain Vogue India, July 2020

How Trans and Intersex Indians Would Suffer Under a New Discriminatory Bill (co-authored with Zarah Udwadia) Them, January 2019

How the internet helped break sexual taboos, especially for women The Economic Times, May 2018

Loop of Desire – the erotic potential of GIF porn GQ India, July 2017

How some asexuals use erotica to get off VICE, March 2017

Why has one Delhi woman announced that she will date 50 men this year? Yahoo Originals, October 2014

Have We Got It All Wrong About Internet Addiction? Yahoo! Originals, September 2014

A walk down Bombay’s oldest pleasure district The Sunday Guardian, October 2013

Inside Mumbai’s Burgeoning Hip-hop Scene The Sunday Guardian, October 2013

Class and the canine: the Indian rich and their obsession with pedigree The Sunday Guardian, October 2013

Soonawala rape case shows how elite privilege works The Sunday Guardian, June 2013

Keeping Women Safe?: Gender, Online Harassment and Indian Law Economic and Political Weekly, June 2013

Interviews:

‘The Things We Take For Granted Hurt Us The Most’: An Interview with Jenny Odell, Hazlitt, March 2023

A History of How the Internet Shaped Our Sex Lives Electric Literature, Jan 2023

‘How Many Accents is it Normal to Have?’: An Interview with Pyae Moe Thet War, Hazlitt, July 2022

Tajja Isen Incisively Separates Real Activism from Lip Service in “Some of My Best Friends”, Electric Literature, May 2022

‘When Nothing Can Ever Be Enough’: An Interview with Karen Tucker, Hazlitt, April 2022

‘Part of Being Young is How Much You Notice’: An Interview with Scarlett Thomas, Hazlitt, November 2021

Finding Self-Worth By Stalking Your Instagram Crush IRL Electric Literature, September 2021

A Cult to Reform Bad White Men Electric Literature, July 2021

‘You Fight Until It Is Defeated’: An Interview with Ruby Hamad Hazlitt, March 2021

A Coming-of-Age Novel that Weaves Ugandan Folklore and African Feminism Electric Literature, December 2020

Searching for Family History in Taiwan’s Forests Electric Literature, December 2020

‘There’s Still Time to Save It’: An Interview with Charlotte McConaghy Hazlitt, September 2020

Elisa Gabbert Helps Us Make Sense of Living in a Time of Disaster Electric Literature, September 2020

Porochista Khakpour’s “Brown Album” Takes on Race and Identity in America Electric Literature, July 2020

“Wanting a Better Life Is an Act of Resistance” Electric Literature, June 2020

Why “Ok.” Is The Most Terrifying Text Message You Could Ever Receive Electric Literature, April 2020

Stop Telling Women to Tone it Down Electric Literature, February 2020

Stop Trying To Be Productive Electric Literature, December 2019

“Permission” Is a BDSM Novel That Is About More Than Sex Electric Literature, October 2019

The Complicated Afterlife of a Murdered Social Media Star Electric Literature, October 2019

“Besharam” is a Survival Guide for Shameless Brown Girls Electric Literature, April 2019

Author Sharanya Mannivannan Thinks Love Can Be Subversive The Establishment, October 2016

 

Opinion:

Horrible Bosses (co-authored with Sonaksha) The Nib (Work Issue), Jan 2023

Sex Online Is Becoming Thinner, Straighter, and Whiter Them, February 2019

Clicks for pleasure India Today Woman, December 2017

If We're Insisting Domestic Violence Is A "Family Matter," At Least Talk To Your Family About It BuzzFeed, July 2016

Why I Share My Favourite Porn With Other Women BuzzFeed, May 2016

Why we need porn: rescuing sex from the free speech debate Catch News, August 2015

Let’s not call it porn Mint Lounge, April 2015

Sexist remarks, stalking and rape threats: how women are punished for speaking online Scroll, February 2015

The not-so-strange feeling that someone’s always watching you GenderIT, August 2014

Street Talking: how gender hierarchies online mirror those offline The Caravan, July 2013

 

Reviews:

Where does my data body live? Thoughts on the online trail we leave behind Firstpost, February 2020

The Strangely Narrow World Before Her Yahoo! Originals, June 2014

Echo of a Battle Cry Open Magazine, March 2014

A Life Less Ordinary in the Taj Mahal of Chicken Coops Yahoo! Originals, January 2014

Dualism defeats dissolution in Henrot’s show The Sunday Guardian, August 2013

Miniatures that make conceptual twists The Sunday Guardian, August 2013