Essays
A Multiverse of Words: On the Happy Coincidences of Omnivorous Reading
LitHub
March 2, 2023
Between the story and the clock
Writer’s Mosaic
January 4, 2023
My Father’s Places
Writer’s Mosaic
February 22, 2022
Recollections of a Long Siege in Kashmir
Time Magazine
November 19, 2019
The Blood of Tulips
Jacobin Magazine
April 5, 2019
How teenage boys went hunting for vegetables under a siege by armed forces in Kashmir in the 1990s
Scroll.in
August 6, 2019
How to kill a Kashmiri: A novelist’s list
Scroll.in
May 14, 2018
A small Eden: The wellspring of life's permanence in Kashmir
Dawn Herald
February 6, 2017
India’s crackdown in Kashmir: is this the world’s first mass blinding?
The Guardian
November 8, 2016
Making Art Under Military Siege
Catapult
June 9, 2016
How to award a posthumous sedition award to a poet
Scroll.in
February 26, 2016
Return Home After Apocalyptic Floods
Newsweek
April 8, 2015
A Cover Story: The Book of Gold Leaves
Penguin Blog
November 3, 2014
The Torturable Class
Guernica
February 3, 2014
India's message to Kashmir: the noose can extend beyond the gallows
The Guardian
February 13, 2013
Bush House
Granta
August 28, 2012