Selected Recent Work
The Double Bind: on documenta 15
art agenda / August 2022
Heat Waves
London Review of Books / July 2022
Divine Exercises: on Demolitions
London Review of Books / May 2022
‘One Long Crime’ with Lawrence Abu Hamdan
art agenda / May 2022
In the Orchard
London Review of Books / March 2022
An excerpt from ‘Remember the Details’
e-flux journal / February 2022
Essay
Political Faultlines: on ‘Does Your House of Lions’
Frieze / March 2022
Disrobed: on the Indian Hijab Ban
London Review of Books / February 2022
Sudden, Fleeting Things: on Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s Jet Lag
Berlinale Forum / February 2022
Danish Siddiqui
Artforum / August 2021
Totally Concocted
London Review of Books / August 2021
Out of Oxygen
London Review of Books / April 2021
On Republic Day
London Review of Books / January 2021
Caste Atrocities
London Review of Books / December 2020
What is the risk they pose?
London Review of Books / September 2020
The Prison Between Mountains: on Occupied Kashmir
Akademi Mag / August 2020
Kashmir, One Year On
London Review of Books / August 2020
Michaela Coel Makes Us Feel Less Alone
Frieze / July 2020
After Cyclone Amphan
London Review of Books / June 2020
Glamour and Resistance in Shola von Reinhold’s ‘Lote’
Frieze / June 2020
Tentacular Things: Writing from Quarantine
Canvas / June 2020
On Censorship and Resistance in Locked-down India
Artforum / May 2020
‘Light it up’ : on COVID-19 in India
London Review of Books / April 2020
Hostile Environment: Battling the UK’s Immigration Barriers
Frieze / March 2020
Upholding the Constitution
London Review of Books / January 2020
How Artists Are Helping India’s Protesters Reclaim their Country’s Voice
Frieze / January 2020
Everyday History: on Modernism and Masks
SOL Magazine / December 2019
Venice, the Apocalypse and an Opera
The Wire / November 2019
A Window of Vulnerability: On Belgin
VISP / October 2019
Why the Art World Needs to Wake Up to the Kashmir Crisis
Frieze / September 2019
Non-violence and the Indian National Pavilion in Venice
Hyperallergic / June 2019
Photo Kathmandu and South Asian Solidarity
Art Monthly / April 2019
India’s #MeToo Moment and the Art World
Frieze / November 2018
The Jailing of Bangladeshi Photographer Shahidul Alam
Frieze / August 2018
Not the Gallery System
Art Review Asia / March 2018
‘Dear Laxmi’ on Rosângela Rennó’s Río-Montevideo
The Photographer’s Gallery, London / March 2018
Exit Wounds
TAKE Architecture Issue / February 2018
Indian Art in Paris
Frieze / November 2017
‘The Whole Nine Yards’ on The Sari Project
Selvedge / July 2017
‘A Garland of Rivers’ on the Trial-Performance Landscape as Evidence: Artist as Witness
e-flux conversations / June 2017
Ancient and Modern: A Letter from Kathmandu
Art Monthly / May 2017
Foreign Bodies: A Letter from Bangalore
Art Monthly / March 2017
Best Export Quality
In ‘Honey, I’m Home’ published by the RCA / July 2016
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany, Royal Opera House, London
Royal Opera House Digital Programme / March 2015
Review
Jake Grewal & Lionel Wendt at Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
Frieze / May 2022
Sosa Joseph at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
Artforum / April 2020
Does Your House of Lions (2020)
Frieze / March 2022
The White Tiger (2021)
Art Review / March 2021
The Discreet Charm of the Savarnas (2020)
Artforum / January 2021
Ramy (2019–)
Artforum / July 2020
Mrinalini Mukherjee at Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
Art in America / April 2020
Prajakta Potnis at Project 88, Mumbai
Frieze / April 2020
Dhaka Art Summit 2020
Frieze / February 2020
Iqra Tanveer at Grey Noise, Dubai
Frieze / January 2020
WangShui at Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin
Frieze / December 2019
Naeem Mohaiemen at Experimenter, Kolkata
Artforum / December 2019
Henrike Naumann at Belvedere 21, Vienna
Apollo Magazine / November 2019
Phenomenal Ocean at Ocean Space, Venice
Hyperallergic / October 2019
Steirischer Herbst 2019, Graz
Hyperallergic / October 2019
Bergen Assembly 2019, Bergen
Art Monthly / October 2019
Venice Biennale 2019
The Caravan / September 2019
The Great Hack (2019)
The Wire / July 2019
Article 15 (2019)
Frieze / July 2019
CAMP at Experimenter, Kolkata
Frieze / June 2019
Arpita Singh at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
Frieze / April 2019
Simryn Gill at Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
The White Review / February 2019
India Art Fair 2019, New Delhi
Artforum/February 2019
Kochi Muziris Biennale 2018, Kochi
Frieze / December 2018
Steirischer Herbst 2018, Graz
ArtMonthly / November 2018
Experimenter Curator’s Hub 2018, Kolkata
ArtMonthly / September 2018
William Dalrymple at Akara Art, Mumbai
Art Review Asia / July 2018
Wild Wild Country (2018)
Artforum / March 2018
Persevering Traditions at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Art Review Asia / March 2018
When is Space? at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
Art Review Asia / March 2018
Bani Abidi & Naeem Mohaiemen at Experimenter, Kolkata
The White Review / February 2018
Preti Taneja: We That Are Young, published by Galley Beggar Press
The White Review / October 2017
The Jaipur Literature Festival 2017, Jaipur
Litro Magazine / February 2017
Kochi Muziris Biennale 2016, Kochi
Apollo Magazine / January 2017
Sonita (2015)
Time Is Now Zine (in association with the BFI) / November 2016
Critic’s Picks
Shubigi Rao at Venice Biennale 2022
Frieze / April 2022
Hardeep Pandhal and Jagdeep Raina at Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
Artforum / October 2021
Dayanita Singh at ARTISANS’, Mumbai
Artforum / January 2020
Atef Maatallah at Elmarsa, Dubai
Artforum / December 2019
‘Mutarerium’ at Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai
Artforum / July 2019
Frieze’s Guide to Venice 2019: India Pavilion
Frieze / April 2019
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji at Ayyam Gallery, Dubai
Artforum / April 2019
Chennai Photo Biennale 2019, Chennai
Artforum / March 2019
Critic’s Guide 2019: New Delhi
Frieze / January 2019
Nikhil Chopra at Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai
Artforum / December 2018
Sophia Brueckner & Tara Kelton at Galleryske, Bangalore
Artforum / November 2018
Jihan El-Tahri at Clark House Initiative, Mumbai
Artforum / March 2018
Shreyas Karle at Project 88, Mumbai
Artforum / February 2018
Critic’s Guide 2018: New Delhi
Frieze / February 2018
Jayashree Chakravarty at Musée Guimet, Paris
Artforum / November 2017
Praneet Soi at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai
Artforum / July 2017
Aimée Parrot at Breese Little, London
This Is Tomorrow / November 2016
Profile
Sheba Chhachhi
Aperture / September 2021
Otobong Nkanga
Frieze / November 2020
Naeem Mohaiemen
Bidoun / November 2018
Rithika Merchant
Verve Magazine / August 2018
Sara Naim
Harper’s Bazaar Art / March 2018
Princess Bamba Duleep Singh
In ‘On Violence’ published by MA Bibliothèque / February 2018
Nalini Malani
Art Review Asia / December 2017
Kiran Nadar
Harper’s Bazaar Art / November 2017
Homai Vyarawalla
e-flux conversations / September 2017
Rana Begum
Harper’s Bazaar Art / June 2017
Madan Mahatta
Frieze / April 2017
Prabhavathi Meppayil
Studio International / March 2017
Amrita Sher-Gil: The Portraits
In ‘The Interjection Calendar’ published by Montez Press / March 2016
Interview
Nicoline Van Harskamp
Studio International/August 2019
Sohrab Hura
Studio International/August 2019
Nikhil Chopra
Studio International/July 2019
Gerhard Steidl
Scroll.in/April 2019
Ronny Sen
Studio International/April 2019
Aaditi Joshi
Studio International/September 2018
Jihan El-Tahri
e-flux conversations / March 2018
Bharti Kher
Studio International / January 2018
Kindness Music
Boiler Room TV / December 2017
Shilpa Gupta
Studio International / September 2017
Mithu Sen
Studio International / May 2017
Alok Vaid-Menon
The Caravan / March 2017
Aki Sasamoto
Studio International / January 2017
Catalogue Essay
Lawrence Abu Hamdan: The Voice Before the Law
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin / October 2019
Saubiya Chasmawala: Batin
Tarq, Mumbai / October 2019
Matters of Hand: Craft, Design and Technique
Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa / July 2019
Amrita Sher-Gil: Perhaps it will fly away if I get up?
Akara Art, Mumbai / April 2019
Elizabeth Drury: Objects in Transition
Akara Art, Mumbai / January 2018
Rithika Merchant: Where the Water Takes Us
Tarq, Mumbai / November 2017
Amshu Chukki: The Tour
Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai / November 2017
Newspaper Writing
Weekly Newspaper Column on Mumbai Art Deco Architecture
Times of India: Mumbai Mirror / October 2017 – January 2018
Mumbai Deco: An Introduction
Mohammed Ali Road: The Deco Collage
Matunga: The Family Deco
Aurora Talkies: The Public Deco
Dadar Parsi Colony: A Deco of Plans
Sea Face Park: The High Modern
Marine Drive: The Deco Necklace
Bandra: The Bungalow Deco
The Oval: The Deco Landing
Deco Hotels: The Last Sentinels
Poetry/Fiction
And the nothing was living and moist
Visual Verse / August 2016
Personal Proxies
With Erica Scourti for Block Universe / June 2016
