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
“Congress Radio Challenge to British Rule” India Forum (online), July 2024
“Finding the Timeless and the Universal in Naiyer Masud’s Short Stories,” The Caravan (online), August 2017.
“What can the Spread of German Propaganda in India During WWII Tell Us about Fake News Today?” Scroll, December 2016.
“The Voice Next Door: When Indian Listeners Got their Filmi Music Fix from Radio Ceylon,” The Caravan, December 2012.