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OM BOOKS, May 2024
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THE ESTABLISHED
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THE ESTABLISHED
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The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays: Book Review, July 2023

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Outlook India

‘Santhals Celebrate Menstruation As Hormobaha Or Flower Of The Body': An Interview with author Farah Ahamed, September 2022

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An interview with translator turned critically-acclaimed author, Aruna Chakravarti, August, 2022

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Vogue India

Onir: “It is easier for them to tell our stories, as opposed to us”: An Interview with Indian Indie filmmaker, Onir, July 2022

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Kashmir's stories are best told by Kashmiris themselves, shows this anthology of short fiction, April 2022

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Vogue India

Love Korean Dramas? These Korean books in translation should be your next stop, March 2022

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Kashmiri Pandits and the exodus: Eight books that go to the heart of the pain and trauma, March 2022

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Vogue India

6 definitive novels to read on Kashmir by Kashmiris, January 2022

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Co-director Sushmit Ghosh talks about Writing With Fire being shortlisted for the 94th Academy Awards, January 2022

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Desi Books (South Asian Literature)

Book Review: Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh by Shrayana Bhattacharya, December 2021

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ASAP Art

Film Review: Borderlands directed by Samarth Mahajan, November 2021 (Available exclusively on the Asap Connect app)

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JCLA (The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics)

Book Review: Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma, ed. Annegret Fauser and Michael A. Figueroa, 2021

Cinema

The Hindu: Half Widow by Danish Renzu, January 2020

Half Widow does not fall into the Bollywood trap of the formula Kashmiri film.

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Mithila Review

Unstoppable Women, Nightmarish Cities: Asian Horror Cinema, August 2016

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Mithila Review

Joshua Oppenheimer: Memories of Screams and Silence, May 2016

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Interviews

India Today: Filmmaker interview

Shikara is a movement: Vidhu Vinod Chopra, February 2020

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‘You have to be very humble': How Neerja Mattoo translates from Kashmiri to English

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Interview with Filmmaker Danish Renzu on his film ‘Half Widow'

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Emergence Magazine, USA, April 2014

In Focus: Tibet (Interview with Tenzin Tsundue)

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Essays

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Personal Essay, January 2020: The Exile: What Kashmiri Pandits have not been able to do in the thirty years since 19 January 1990

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Manto on Ismat, who, like independent India and Pakistan, was born on August 15, August 2016

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Google was right to remember Premchand (with a doodle) and so should we, August 2016

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Where is your woman poet, Kashmir? A search and six discoveries, June 2016

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Book Reviews

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Book Review: A Map of Longings: The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali by Manan Kapoor, June 2021

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The Orders Were to Rape You by Meena Kandasamy, April 2021

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‘Terrarium: Poetry Collection by Urvashi Bahuguna, April 2019

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How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross? by Akhil Katyal, April 2019

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Pilgrimage by Ira Singh, October 2018

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The Saga of Satisar by Chandrakanta, April 2018

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Burning the Sun's Braids translated by Bhuchung D. Sonam, February 2018

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Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks, November 2017

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Turtles All the Way Down by John Green, October 2017

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My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent, October 2017

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The Lovers (also known as Immigrant Montana) by Amitava Kumar, July 2017

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Poetry

A Map Called Home (2018)

Two poems published in the anthology by Kitaab International, Singapore.

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Translations

Asymptote Journal, January 2017

Translated Naseem Shafaie's poem ‘Tale of a City' from Kashmiri to English for Indian Poetry Special Feature, reprinted in The Wire (Republic of Verse).

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Summerhill Journal, IIAS Review, Summer 2017

Nighat Sahiba: The Brave New Voice in Kashmiri Poetry

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