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Writing:  Read my review of Aravind Adiga's White Tiger, in the New York Times Book Review  (upcoming)

Writing:  I've contributed an online special at Granta about the US elections. There are lots of other great contributors, too: a highly recommended read for an international perspective.

Writing:  My article on man-made beach erosion in South India has just been published in Granta 101 . I also made a (very amateurish) video to accompany the article. 

Writing:  I'm working on a book, India Becoming, for Penguin-Riverhead (NY). The book is a personal and reported take on what I call the "Americanization of India." More details soon... 

Writing: Upamanyu Chatterjee's English, August has finally been published in America (18 years after its publication in India). Read my review in the New York Times Book Review

Writing: Read my article on the digital divide, viewed from the ground,  published in the Economist

Writing: Read my article on the Tsunami, published in the New Yorker. Read a second report here.

Writing: I've written a week of dispatches for Slate on the Indian elections.

Writing Read my review of Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom, published in The Atlantic Monthly

Writing "A Million Neuroses," an essay on V.S. Naipaul and the new South Asian politics. Originally published in Transition, reprinted in The Humour and the Pity (April 2002, ed. Amitava Kumar), an anthology to commemorate Naipaul's Nobel Prize

 

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