Academic Essays and Translations

(PDFs of all articles available here)

“‘I Am a Listener’: A Conversation with Har Mandir Singh ‘Hamraaz’” Bioscope: Journal of South Asian Screen Studies , Vol 15. Iss. 1, 2024.


(co-authored with Andrew Amstutz) “Rethinking the Second World War in South Asia: Between Theatres and beyond Battles,” Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 57 Special Iss. 5, 2023.


“Broadcasting the ‘(anti)colonial sublime’: Radio SEAC, Congress Radio, and the Second World War in South Asia,” Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 57 Special Iss. 5, 2023.

Songs by Ballot: Binaca Geetmala and the Making of a Hindi Film Radio Audience, 1952-1994”, Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Vol. 13 Iss. 1, Summer, 2022.

(co-authored with Hoda Bandeh-Ahmadi) “Who is a South Asianist? A Conversation on Positionality” in Who Is the Asianist?: The Politics of Representation in Asian Studies. Edited by Will Bridges, Keisha A. Brown, Nitasha Tamar Sharma, and Marvin D. Sterling, Columbia University Press, 2022.

(co-translated with Timsal Masud) “Shams ur-Raḥmān Fārūqī” by Nayyar Masʿūd (translation from Urdu), Journal of Urdu Studies, Vol 2 Iss. 1, Spring 2021.

Radio, Citizenship and the ‘Sound Standards’ of a Newly Independent India,” Public Culture, Vol. 31 Iss. 1, January 2019.

 “M.N. Roy and the Mexican Revolution: How a Militant Indian Nationalist Became an International Communist,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 40 Iss. 3, 2017.

 “Jarnali Sarak (The Grand Trunk Road): Excerpts from a Radio Show by Raza Ali Abidi,” (translation from Urdu) SAGAR, A South Asia Research Journal, Vol. 21 (special issue on translation), Fall 2013.

Journalistic Essays