Mistaking a planet for a star
Finalist, 2023 Prime Number Magazine Award for Poetry
In this version
Finalist, Indiana Review’s Poetry Contest, 2022
Numerous poems
Longlisted, TOTO AWARDS BY TFA: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Numerous poems
Honorable Mention, Paul Violi Poetry Prize, 2020
A Sky of Scattered Stars
Glass Poetry Journal, SEPTEMBER 2025
GOLDEN
Variant Literature, Issue 20., March 2025
“A cup full of moments” and “Water Everything”
December Magazine, Vol. 35. 2., November 2024
“Household”, “Spent Childhood”, and “EVERYTHING YOU NEED”
Muse India, May 2024
3 from Lucy Sante’s Evidence
Diagram, December 2023
How to prepare for a funeral or Things you learnt while growing up
West Trade Review, June 2023
I’m eating an orange
Vagabond City, March 2023
“I’m the slowest smoker” and “My heart is an oak tree”
Usawa Literary Review, June 2022
Tonight is the night
Blood Orange Review, June 2022
Grief is a fish
Penn Review, February 2022
“HUNGER”, “Like a fish on a hook”, and “The Middle of Beauty”
Winner, Breakout Prize for Poetry by Epiphany, 2022
Epiphany, January 2022
HUNGER
Pushcart Prize Nomination by Epiphany Magazine, 2022
You have stopped going
Winner, The Baltimore Review’s Winter Contest, 2022
Baltimore Review, January 2022
“Love is more digestible now”, “With a good knife”, and “The field of light”
Anti-Heroin Chic, December 2021
Withdrawal
Cafe Dissensus, December 2021
Grief is like standing
Tupelo Quarterly, August 2021
Art History
Witness: The Red River Book of Poetry of Dissent, July 2021
“Quarantine” and “Baarish”
FEED Lit Mag, May 2021
Sunspotting
Nurture Literary, April 2021
True or False
Epiphany, February 2021
Sunstorm
VAYAVYA, August 2020
Small Feelings
Jaggery Lit, 2020
Breakfast
The Inquisitive Eater, November 2019
let’s find a tiny spot to grow flowers
Chaicopy, November 2019
his towel
Kitaab Singapore’s Anthology, “A Map Called Home”, 2019
Leftovers
The Offing, April 2023
Folded Island
Gone Lawn, March 2022
Love in Bengali Dialect
Winner, Pigeon Pages Fiction Contest, 2021
Nominated for Best American Short Fiction Anthology, 2021
Pigeon Pages NYC, July 2020
I’M DIGGING GRAVES FOR RATS
Nominated for Best Micro-Fiction by Passages North, 2021
Passages North, April 2021
Beauty Star
Sky Island Journal, August 2019
Crows And Goodbyes
The Aerogram, May 2017
Mustard Yellow
The Bangalore Review, March 2018
Cold Flesh
Quail Bell Magazine, April 2017
More than Trees
Indiana Review, April 2023
Jaggery
VIDA Review, December 2021
Yellow Days
South Florida Poetry Journal, November 2021
Nominated for Best of Net, 2021
Holes in the Body
Entropy, September 2021
LitHub, Best of Literary Internet, September 2021
Nominated, Favorite Online Articles and Essays by Entropy, 2021
Hold Your Body
Speculative Nonfiction, May 2021
Interviews
with J. Mae Barizo
Braiding motherhood, ancestry, desire, love, and movement with J. Mae Barizo
Atticus Review, June 2023
with Jenny Xie
Displacement of Memory, Passage of Grief among other things with Jenny Xie
Full Stop, October 2022
with Karthik Sethuraman
The Space at The Crossing: An Interview with Karthik Sethuraman Sethuraman
Drizzle Review, August 2021
with Preeti Vangani
Tucking Loss Into Poems Doesn’t Lighten Death: An Interview with Preeti Vagnani
Bengaluru Review, July 2019
with Naomi Shihab Nye
Spend More Time Listening to Kids: An Interview with Naomi Shihab Nye
Public Seminar, April 2020
Creative Writing Blog, The New School, FEBRUARY 2020
with Arundhathi Subramaniam
Poetry Takes A Walk With Arundhathi Subramaniam
Equiverse Space: A Sound Home in Words, September 2018
Select Press
Learn how to write short pieces of fiction in this online workshop this weekend
MidDay, AUGUST 2025
Booked in April: Here’s what Mumbaikars are reading this month
MidDay, April 2025
UAE residents reveal their New Year resolutions and wishes for 2025
Written on behalf of Paramjit Ahluwalia, school principal of Dunes International School, Abu Dhabi
Gulf News, December 2024
Bengaluru Poetry Festival 2023: Conversing Art
NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, JULY 2023
Shorties (An Interview with Jenny Xie, An Interview with Crutchfield & Kevin Morby, and more)
Largehearted Boy’s Blog, October 2022
Press Release for Soumya Netrabile’s Exhibit at The Journal
Tennis Elbow, April 2022
Valentine’s Day: Mumbaikars on love in a Post-Pandemic World
MidDay, February 2022
Where I Write: With Aekta Khubchandani
The New School’s Creative Writing Blog, March 2021
Pigeon Pages July Reading ft. Frances Cha, Kiley Reid, and Aekta Khubchandani
McNally Jackson Books, July 2020
Fiction is the truth sold as lies
TedX Talk, Mumbai 2018
The New Normal
Winner, Best Microfilm, Indie Short Fest by Los Angeles International Film Festival, 2021
Winner, Toronto Documentary Feature & Short Film Festival, 2021
Winner, Switzerland International Film Festival, 2021
Winner, SHORT to the Point, 2021
Checklist
Social Media, March 2021
Mother’s Recipe
Sophia Polytechnic, MARCH 2017
My Multilingual Love Affairs
Spoken Fest Mumbai 2020, Kommune
I keep falling in love every time I fall out of it
Love Beyond Romance, Kommune 2020
Talk-A-Thon, Ramnarain Ruia College, April 2020
Bhutan Lit Fest, August 2018
The Red Bus
Abheydyaa, MAY 2019
The first time I saw you
MAP Fest, JULY 2018
I tried to look like Ma
The Quill Company, DECEMBER 2017
The Food Show
Poetry College x Unerase Poetry at The Habitat, August 2017