Add a CommentWhat happens after the waters recede? A second report on the tsunami, published in The New Yorker
Tsunami
Monday, January 10th, 2005A dispatch on the tsunami, published in The New Yorker
No one who survived the tsunami that crashed into South India on December 26th describes it as a wave. The fishermen and villagers who live along the coast, and whose homes and livelihoods were swept away, speak of a “wall of water.”
‘Maximum City’: Bombay Confidential
Sunday, November 21st, 2004Review of Maximum City, by Suketu Mehta, The New York Times Book Review
Election Time in the World’s Largest Democracy
Friday, May 14th, 2004Five Dispatches on India’s national elections and their surprising outcome, published in Slate
Beyond the Digital Divide
Thursday, March 11th, 2004An article on new business models that seek to bridge the digital divide with for-profit solutions. Published in The Economist
The Present Is a Foreign Country
Sunday, February 23rd, 2003Review of Heaven’s Edge, by Romesh Gunesekera, The New York Times Book Review
House of Blue Mangoes
Sunday, March 31st, 2002Review of The House of Blue Mangoes, by David Davidar, The New York Times Book Review
The Picador Book of Modern Indian Writing
Monday, August 13th, 2001Review of The Picador Book of Modern Indian Writing, edited by Amit Chaudhuri, The New Statesman
Anyone turning to this anthology in search of a tradition is likely to be rather bewildered by the bedlam of languages, themes and genres. But perhaps there is method in this madness. So many of the pieces in this collection suffer the same absence of a tradition that, at some point, it seems churlish to insist on calling it an absence.
Politics Into Economics Don’t Go
Monday, July 16th, 2001An essay on the literature of immigrants, published in Index on Censorship
The end of the Cold War altered political realities; it also changed the way the West receives–and reads–immigrants
Techno-Brahmins
Sunday, March 25th, 2001Review of India Unbound, by Gurcharan Das, The New York Times Book Review