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Public History & Other Writing

History of science and tech

‘How did the Howrah Bridge get its iconic design?’, The Hindu (online), 3 Feb 2023.
‘Reservoir Gods’, FiftyTwo.in, 17 Sep 2021.
‘Engineers’ Day: The story of the Irishman who moulded Visvesvaraya’s Alma Mater’, The Wire, 15 Sep 2019.
‘Science and reason in India’. Op-ed in The Hindu, 15 Jan 2019.
‘Centenary: P.C. Vaidya, a Gandhian Physicist Who Laboured in India’s Shadows’, The Wire, 27 May 2018.
‘Doctors With(out) Borders: How Partition Affected Scientists in India and Pakistan’, The Wire, 11 Aug 2017.
‘Where’s Vaz? How Technology Shaped the Fluctuating Fortunes of Bollywood’s Musicians’, The Wire, 21 Jul 2017.
‘S. Venkatasubba Setty: A Hidden Figure in English Aviation History’, The Wire, 15 May 2017.
‘The Complicated History of How MRI Was Invented – and “Brought” to India’, The Wire, 8 Apr 2017.
‘The Small Technologies That Have Powered India Just Like Dams and the Railways Have’, The Wire, 5 Mar 2017.
‘A Historian’s Notes On How To Talk About Ancient Science – Indian or Not’, The Wire, 30 Jan 2017.

History for general audiences

‘History and the Art of Asking Why’, The Stepwell (Ahmedabad University blog), 30 June 2020.
‘Prayers, choirs and heavy downpours: Here’s what opening ceremonies of past Olympics were like’, Scroll.in, 5 Aug 2016.

‘Road to Rio: it’s hard to believe now, but India did rule the world in hockey once’, Scroll.in, 25 Jul 2016.
‘Ford, TISCO, Facebook: The company township then and now’, article on IIM Kozhikode Research Blog, 12 Nov 2013.

Personal essays, literary translation, etc.

Articles on thREAD, the blog of The Hindu.
My general blog.

Sports writing

‘Reliving the Wimbledon Experience’, The New Indian Express, 17 Jun 2011.
‘Need to Prune Thickness of Bats’, The New Indian Express, 25 Oct 2011.
Sports blog I used to run with some friends.

Short stories

‘Tie-Breaker’, on Amazon Kindle Store, June 2019. (First published in Reading Hour magazine, Jul/Aug 2015).
‘Dear Ambassador’, short story in First Proof 7: The Penguin Book of New Writing (Penguin, 2011).

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