Recent Essays

“Inconvenient Women” (April 2026 | eShe)
Why society loves dead women but hates angry ones. On the cultural scripts that reward female silence and punish female rage.
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“The Horcrux Theorem of Friendship.“ (April 2026 | Substack)
It’s about friendship, memory, and the strange way people we’ve befriended and kept end up holding parts of who we’ve been.
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“Can I Still Be Your Child?” (April 2026 | Substack)
On loving someone who’s still physically present but no longer fully reachable. A meditation on my mother’s Frontotemporal Dementia.
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“Talk to Uncle” (March 2026 | Substack)
A single phrase from my mother becomes a fulcrum for compound loss, caretaking exhaustion, and anticipatory grief.
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“Mr Darcy’s Third Nipple” (March 2026 | Substack)
On book-to-screen adaptations and what gets lost in translation when we flatten complexity for mass consumption.
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Selected Work

eShe

  • “Inconvenient Women” (April 2026) — Featured in editor’s top stories carousel
  • “When religion defines nationality: Women and the abduction crisis of 1947” (March 2024) — Read
  • “These 5 books on Partition highlight hope amidst conflict and the human cost of Independence” (August 2024) — Read

MoneyControl

  • “Gender Discrimination in the Corporate Sector: Let Me Count the Ways” (2021) — Read

SheThePeople

  • “Gender Fact: A thorough look at India’s abortion law and impact on unwanted pregnancies” (2020) — Read
  • “The Awakening: How I fell in love with myself again. Because I needed to”(2019) — Read

Times of India Readers’ Blog

  • “Talking About Equality in Marriages” — Read →

Women’s Web

  • “Obstetric Violence in Indian Hospitals” (2020)
  • “Love, Sex, and Dhoka”
  • “Unshackle Me”

Academic

  • Scholarly work on Beneath Divided Skies:
  • PhD dissertation by Warisha Khatoon (St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata), titled “Rescue and Restoration in Beneath Divided Skies: A Feminist Perspective.”
  • Academic paper by Dwitya Sarkar (PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur) applying Judith Butler’s feminist framework, published in Trauma in South Asian Women’s Fiction (forthcoming publication)

Award-Winning Short Fiction

🏆 Winner: Asian Prize for Short Stories 2024 (“The White Noise Lullaby”)
📚 Published: 9 stories across 8 international anthologies
✍️ Featured venues: Women’s Web, Penmancy, eShe