Published Writing
PERSONAL ESSAYS
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Finding my feet, Love Camden (Camden Council, London), July 2017
PHOTOGRAPHY & LENS-BASED MEDIA
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Takashi Homma: Letting in the light, Cotonoha, February 2018
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Gauri Gill: Play-acting the everyday, Art Radar, February 2018
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"A fly on the wall": Interview with Sooni Taraporevala on Mumbai, VR and more, Art Radar, August 2017
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Mounira al Solh: Continuity, collaboration and "peculiar personal narratives", Art Radar, May 2017
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In pictures: Fu Wenjun's 'digital painting photography' in Beijing, Art Radar, March 2017
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Museum Bhavan: Dayanita Singh's photobooks and their ever-evolving narratives, Art Radar, March 2016
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Negation and nostalgia: Interview with Palestinian photographer Rula Halawani, Art Radar, February 2016
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7 East Asian photographers from the Deutsche Bank Collection 1970-2010, Art Radar, December 2015
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Laura Boushnak: I Read I Write (pp. 48-53), Tribe, November 2015
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Not quite forgotten: Stories of survival through the lens of Tamas Dezso, The Calvert Journal, September 2015
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Interview with Sama Alshaibi, Aesthetica Online, June 2015
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Review of BAFTA-nominated The Lunchbox, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, February 2015
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Visual fables: Photographer Karen Knorr's song for India, Art Radar, January 2015
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Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life 1990-2005 in Singapore, Aesthetica Online, October 2014
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Silke Schmickl on body politics, video and the moving image at Beirut Art Fair 2014, Art Radar, September 2014
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4 West African photographers to know now, Art Radar, March 2014
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In the shadow of war: Interview with photographer Jamal Penjweny on Iraq today, Art Radar, February 2014
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Art Basel Hong Kong announces first Film sector, Art Radar, January 2014
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Translucent: India's first video art festival, Art Radar, December 2013
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A constellation of stories: India's Amar Kanwar exhibits in Yorkshire, Art Radar, November 2013
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Collective Creativity: Delhi Photo Festival 2013, Art Radar, October 2013
ART
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Straight Forward, Image Driven, catalogue essay for The Painting Center, New York, October 2021
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Staying in with Mario de Miranda, The Saffronart Blog and Sarmaya, April 2020
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5 ways to view amazing art online, The Saffronart Blog, March 2020
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The botanical imagination, Write Art Connect (Serendipity Arts Foundation), September 2019
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Safwan Dahoul: So close and still so far, Art Radar, April 2018
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14 Parsi artists dialogue in Delhi, Art Radar, May 2016
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After Damascus: Tammam Azzam's first paintings since his exile on show in Dubai, Art Radar, January 2016
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Femininity, cyber-addiction and meditation: 4 Korean artists in Greece, Art Radar, September 2015
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India and Pakistan to collaborate at the 56th Venice Biennale, Art Radar, December 2014
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San Art collaborates with Paddle8 for first Southeast Asian auction, Art Radar, December 2014
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Nalini Malani's retrospective You Can't Keep Acid in a Paper Bag in Delhi, Aesthetica Online, September 2014
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3 emerging Hong Kong artists explore intimacy in the age of mediation, Art Radar, September 2014
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The V&A's Islamic art exhibition goes on tour in Russia, Art Radar, May 2014
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Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2014: Hong Kong's Adrian Wong wins top award, Art Radar, May 2014
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2014: First time participant galleries prepare for the fair, Art Radar, May 2014
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10 African artists to know at Dak'Art 2014, Senegal, Art Radar, May 2014
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Artist Nadim Abbas talks cocktails, bunkers and weevils, Art Radar, May 2014
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Serenading visitors at Lee Mingwei's first Beijing show, Art Radar, May 2014
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Manila's mean streets (3): 7 Filipino street artists, Art Radar, May 2014
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Manila's mean streets (2): Interview with the founders of the Filipino Street Art Project, Art Radar, April 2014
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Manila's mean streets (1): The Filipino Street Art Project, Art Radar, April 2014
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Yokohama Triennale announces artists for 2014 edition, Art Radar, April 2014
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Taiwan's first "Art Bank" opens in Taichung, Art Radar, April 2014
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Performance art and the museum: Para Site conference, Hong Kong, Art Radar, April 2014
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Gabi Ngcobo on historical legacies: Para Site conference, Hong Kong, Art Radar, April 2014
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"My Country": Indigenous Australian art in Auckland, Art Radar, April 2014
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Melbourne on the global art map with Australia's newest triennial, Art Radar, March 2014
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Chinese artists at Armory Focus 2014: Alexandre Errera's watch list, Art Radar, March 2014
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Qatar announces new artist residence centre amid booming cultural infrastructure, Art Radar, March 2014
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Christie's opens first Asia-based gallery in Hong Kong, Art Radar, March 2014
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Contemporary art in...Delhi: Art Radar Guide, Art Radar, March 2014
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Indian artist Jayasri Burman on mythology and imagination, Art Radar, March 2014
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6 artists contemplate freedom in "Waiting for the Wind", Art Radar, March 2014
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Central Asia in focus at Art Dubai: Marker 2014, Art Radar, March 2014
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Armory Show 2014: China steals the limelight? Media round up, Art Radar, March 2014
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Contemporary visual culture from Turkey and beyond, Art Radar, March 2014
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Sydney Biennale faces boycott over sponsorship controversy, Art Radar, February 2014
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Tate to work with Indian culture ministry on art initiatives, Art Radar, February 2014
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Southeast Asian women in the diaspora: Troubling Borders book review, Art Radar, February 2014
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Contemporary Muslim calligraphy debuts in Malaysia, Art Radar, February 2014
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INSERT2014: Re-imagining Delhi as a cultural space, Art Radar, February 2014
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South Asia in focus: 5 curated shows at Dhaka Art Summit 2014, Art Radar, February 2014
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Dystopia in Beijing: Cao Fei's Haze and Fog - book review, Art Radar, January 2014
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India's largest public art project lands at Mumbai airport, Art Radar, January 2014
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Art Stage Singapore 2014 builds bridges in Asia?, Art Radar, January 2014
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10 great artists at Art Stage Singapore 2014, Art Radar, January 2014
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Sub-Saharan Africa's first contemporary art museum opens in Benin, Art Radar, January 2014
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Art after the storm: Filipino artists respond to Typhoon Haiyan, Art Radar, January 2014
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Making art accessible: Interview with Neha Kirpal on the India Art Fair, Art Radar, January 2014
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"Beyond official culture": Interview with Philip Tinari on Chinese contemporary art, Art Radar, January 2014
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Unpacking contemporary art: Ode to Art video lecture, Art Radar, December 2013
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Oxford's Ashmolean Museum acquires world class collection of Chinese art, Art Radar, December 2013
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Okwui Enwezor named first African-born director of the Venice Biennale, Art Radar, December 2013
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Oman donates $1.8 million to the Smithsonian's African art museum, Art Radar, December 2013
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Negotiating urban identity: 5 young Hong Kong artists, Art Radar, December 2013
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Total eclipse: The "Black Sun" across cultures, Art Radar, December 2013
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Between displacement and dissent: 8 Syrian contemporary artists, Art Radar and Seismopolite, November 2013
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Taiwan's White Fungus art magazine to go global, Art Radar, November 2013
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Asian artists on the world stage at New York's Performa 13, Art Radar, November 2013
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Currency Crisis: Southeast Asian artists talk money in Bangkok, Art Radar, November 2013
LITERATURE, LIFESTYLE & CULTURE
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The most expensive Hermès Birkin bags, Otis, March 2022
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The most expensive books ever sold (Literary edition), Otis, December 2021
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Pinned post: The evolving art of brooches, The Saffronart Blog, October 2019
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What is the use of a book without pictures?, The Saffronart Blog, June 2019
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New Year's Eve at the opera: Our 6 favorites, Blouin Artinfo, December 2016
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Art and books: 10 magnificent libraries around the world, Blouin Artinfo, December 2016
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Threads of continuity: A look at Zoroastrian heritage through three exhibitions, REORIENT, June 2016
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A is for arsenic: Crime Writers Festival 2016, The Hindu, January 2016
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Witnessing Rufus Wainwright's Prima Donna at the Athens Epidaurus Festival, Greece, Aesthetica, October 2015
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Sahana Balasubramanya: The language of dance, Bricolage Magazine, June 2013
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On opera in Greece: An interview with Sophie Tsiknia, Bricolage Magazine, March 2013
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Time to get the ball rolling, South Asian Literature Festival, London, 2012
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Staying put but travelling far, South Asian Literature Festival, London, 2012
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Early Parsi theatre: A talk by Kathryn Hansen, SOAS Spirit, edition 5, 2011
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Parsi Heritage: Book launch, IIC Diary, vol. xxv no. 4 (India International Centre), 2011
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Joyous Flame: Book launch, FEZANA Journal, 2011
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Parsi Panorama, Parsiana, August 2011
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Parsiana Festival, IIC Diary, vol. xxv no. 2 (India International Centre), 2011
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Glimpses with Dushyant and Hemant Mehta, Parsi Panorama, 2011
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Raising the curtain on Parsi theatre in Calcutta, Parsi Panorama, 2011
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Interview with Sampurna Chattarji, The Jabberwock, Vol. II issue 03, 2010
TRAVEL
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24 hours in Hanoi: A culture lover's travel guide, The Culture Trip, August 2015
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Prague's Golden Lane: Czech identity through the ages, The Culture Trip, December 2013
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Caught in words: 8 literary things to do in and around London, The Culture Trip, May 2013
POETRY & FICTION
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Two poems and a short story, Sphynxation, May 2016
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Wild iris, Miracle, issue 7, October 2013
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The dream catcher, Every Day Fiction, September 2010
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Her gown, Dwarf Stars Anthology, 2007
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Six haiku, Simply Haiku, 2006