Other places around the internet where my writing can be found…
Book reviews
- “Rereading Walden” – Review of Walden: or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau, published at Public Books. (Nov. 11, 2014)
- “The Era of the Geographically Confused” – Review of Ayya’s Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India by Anand Pandian and M. P. Mariappan, published at the LA Review of Books. (Aug. 2, 2014)
Essays / thought-pieces
- “Peering through the cracks in the California dream: Bangalore’s nostalgia for our manufactured past” – Forthcoming article at Boom: A Journal of California. (Winter, 2014)
- “The Writing on the Wall” – Piece written for The Caravan on the murals spread across public walls in Bangalore. (Sep. 1, 2011)
- “Untitled” – Piece written for Tehelka on the experience of bridging the language gap in rural Tamil Nadu. (May 9, 2009)
Science and Society
- “Notes from the Career Building Workshop for women scientists at NIAS” – Overview of COACh workshop for women scientists held at NIAS, Bangalore in Fall of 2014 for India Bioscience. (Nov. 12, 2014)
- “The uneasy marriage of science and art” – Piece written on the role of creativity in the “two cultures” of science and art for India Bioscience. (Aug. 22, 2014)
Interviews / profiles
- “An Interview with Mukund Thattai” – Faculty profile of Dr. Mukund Thattai for NCBS news. (Oct. 17, 2014)
- “Shelved Away” – Interview with KKS Murthy, proprietor of Select Bookstore in Bangalore, for The Caravan. (Sep. 1, 2012)
Science news pieces
- “Afforestation will help the planet—but climate change needs a deeper solution” – Short article on the findings of mathematical models that examine the net effect of forests on global climate, for India Bioscience. (Nov. 30, 2014)
- “The story of a river: tracking Lantana’s relentless spread” – Short article on recent research analysing the distribution of the invasive plant Lantana camara in Mudumalai, for India Bioscience. (Oct. 20, 2014)
Fiction
- “A Taste of the Apple” – An older short story published on the Bryn Mawr College website, Serendip. (May, 2005)
Hello, enjoyed your Thoreau article, particularly because people have been determined to read it and then, like you, wondered why it was so popular.