I write a lot about development and change in modern India--how new wealth is changing the country, for better and for worse. See these reports from the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. (
1,
2).
I'm particularly interested in (and concerned by) the environmental destruction being wrought by development. See this report on
coastal erosion from Granta, and this report on
India's garbage crisis.
I've also written on development for The Atlantic (an essay review on
Amartya Sen ) and The Economist (on the
digital divide).
I've written several literary essays and reviews over the years. See this one on
VS Naipaul, from Transition, and this one on
Indian literature, from The New Statesman.
Two articles on the five-year anniversary of
the tsunami (
1,
2), from The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. These follow-up from my two original reports on the tsunami, published in The New Yorker (
1,
2).
