BOOK

Every Happiness, Bloomsbury Pub (North America) Feb 3, 2026 and Penguin Random House (India) 2026.

SHORT FICTION

“Beasts”, swamp pink, Pushcart nomination

“A Single Mark” The Masters Review, runner up for the Summer Short Story Award

“Chowpatty Beach” Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading Series

“Aliyah” Waxwing Magazine, Best of the Net Nomination

“Mr. Vora” Joyland Magazine

“The Jains’ Annual Beach House Picnic” Winner of the Third Coast Fiction Prize

“Hari Om Senior Center” Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Award with Interview

“Flamingos” The Texas Review with Interview

Essays + Excerpts

“Writing is an Act of Faith, But Publishing is a Practice in Doubt”, Literary Hub

Excerpt from Every Happiness, Debutiful

Excerpt from Every Happiness, Electric Literature

reporting

“Major oil refinery censured over toxic air” Vital Signs, The Environmental Defense Fund

“What To Do When You Have 20 Million Gig Workers in the Coal Industry” The American Prospect

“Costa Rica’s answer to Range Anxiety” BBC Future Planet

“In India, Suppressing Dissent Can’t Suppress COVID” The American Prospect

“A tiny bat that can fit in your palm” BBC Travel

“Who Are the Modi Democrats?” The American Prospect

“Rainforest Alliance certifying unethical pineapples, activists claim” The Guardian

“A Town in Costa Rica Faces an Ecotourism Crisis” National Geographic

“Can the Concrete Jungle Sink CO2?” The American Prospect

“My local school didn’t teach my son the way I hoped it would. To tackle segregation, we need to talk about that, too” Chalkbeat

“Children at the centre: Classrooms for the kids, by the kids” DNA India

“An American Gharana?” Span Magazine

interviews

“The Gift and Burden of Ancestral Stories: A Conversation with Megan Kamalei Kakimoto” The Rumpus

“'We're Outsourcing Our Decision-Making to Machines'“ The American Prospect