Essays

SIRIN THADA’S ILLUSTRATION FOR TORSA GHOSAL’S CATAPULT ESSAY

“Fictions of Unknowability – How writing ‘to the edge of what can be loved’ develops unreliable, ethically dubious, and perplexing characters” in South Asian Avant-Garde (2023)

“The Language of Plants Was Shaped By a Colonial Past” in Catapult (2022)

“Hiking Through the Colonial History of America’s National Parks” in Catapult (2022)

“Literary Imperialism and Scenes of High Melodrama: When BIPOC and Queer Writers Defy Minimalism” in Public Seminar (2022)

Gun Island and the Stories that Emerge on a Changing Planet” in Lit Hub (2019)

“The Vulnerability of Home on an Afflicted Planet, From California to Calcutta” in Lit Hub (2019)

“How I learned to Love Experimental Fiction by Seeking Out Books by Women of Color” in Bustle (2019)

“Diasporic Intimacies: On Reading ‘Go Home!'” in Michigan Quarterly Review Online (2018)

“How Immigrant Sculptors Shaped an Artists’ Hub Called Kumartuli” in Catapult (2018)

“Joseph Cornell’s Children: A Narrative of Literacy, Memory, and Migration” in Entropy Magazine (2018)

“Brown Girl Goes to Teach English in America” in Papercuts (2018)

“No Land Beneath Her Feet: What Kathua and Bollywood Say about Nomadic Women” in The Ladies Finger (2018)

“Endnotes: Photographing the Dead in the Family” in Papercuts (2017)

“The Most Important Thing about a Woman is Her Clothes” in The Ladies Finger (2016)

“Authors as Romantic Heroes: Maitreyi Devi and Mircea Eliade” in Papercuts (2016)