• Are some children's classics unsuitable for kids?
  Guardian Unlimited, July 23, 2009
  
  
• Reading in India
  Guardian Unlimited, August 15, 2007
  
  
• She's All Write: Profile of Kiran Desai
  South China Morning Post, March 2007 ( not available online)
  
  
• Making Hay in Mumbai
  Guardian Unlimited, February 2007
  
  
• Harry Potter with Samosas (doc format)
  South China Morning Post, February 2007
  Indian children’s writing comes of age
  
  
• Science Friction (pdf format)
  South China Morning Post,  February 2006
  
  
• Killer Queen (pdf format)
  South China Morning Post, November 26, 2005
  Crime Novelist Minette Walters discusses her latest novel
  
  
• The Dahl House
  Business Standard, November 2005
  A new museum celebrates the life of Roald Dahl
  
  
• Ordinary Wonders
  South China Morning Post, October 9, 2005
  Vikram Seth describes his latest book
  
  
• In the name of the father
  Business Standard
  John Irving talks about his new book, and his traumatic childhood
  
  
• A Twist in the Tale
  South China Morning Post
  Penguin India CEO talks about his debut novel, February 2002
  
  
• Pulp Faction
  South China Morning Post, April 1999
  A new breed of Indian writer emerges
  
  
• Mailer looks back in anger
  South China Morning Post, November 1998
  A meeting with Norman Mailer

Current Affairs

• A Family's Race For A Cure
  The Guardian Weekly, February 2010
  
  
• Advice for visitors to Mumbai
  International Herald Tribune, Nov 29, 2008
  
  
• My son saved 150
  Sunday People, Nov28, 2008
  
  
• Indian Docs Worry Emergency-Contraception Misused
  WeNews, 10/16/08
  
  
• Acid Test for Indian Society
  Guardian Weekly, Jul 29, 2008
  
  
• Fighting corruption in India.
  Guardian Weekly, Jan 17, 2008
  
  
• Need to know: India's RTI act is helping people wrest back power from bureaucrats
  Developments, October 2007
  
  
• Are you a baby bore?"
  Mint, July 21, 2007
  
  
• Eveteasing makes India's streets mean for women
  WomensEnews, December 2006
  
  
• Upping the stakes in Goa
  Overseas, December 2006
  
  
• Somewhere to call home (pdf format)
  South China Morning Post, November 2006
  
  
• Missing daughters of India
  Womensenews, May 2006
  
  
• Britain debates outlawing forced marriages
  WomensEnews, October 23 2005
  Britain may prosecute parents who force their children into marriage
  
  
• Inside the Brave new Blair world
  Tehelka, July 30, 2005
  7/7 and the new religious hatred bill
  
  
• At the Food Bank
  Far Eastern Economic Review, January 2003
  How Tokyo helps its homeless
  
  
• The Torment of the Flesh Trade
  Asiaweek July 1999
  A Bangladeshi photographer documents the flesh trade
  
  
• The Schooling Crunch
  Asiaweek June 1999
  The Asian financial crisis hits children hard

Expatriate Life

• Keeping up with the Kapoors
  Little India, May 2005
  An overseas Indian struggles to keep up with the new India
  
  
• Godzilla versus the Tokyo supermums
  Expat Telegraph, March 29, 2005
  The perils of bringing up children in Tokyo
  
  
• Tips for starting an expatriate book club
  Expat Telegraph, Nov 10, 2003
  How book clubs changed my life
  
  
• An endless shake, rattle and roll
  Expat Telegraph, July 21, 2003
  Coping with Tokyo’s earthquakes
  
  
• Garbage in, Garbage out
  Expat Telegraph Dec 30, 2002
  Throwing out the trash in Tokyo is never as simple as it seems

Education

• Academic survival in India
  Guardian Abroad, June 08, 2007
  A struggle to get an Indian education
  
  
• Never too late to read
  South China Morning Post, June 2006
  
  
• Subtlety at play in Toyland
  South China Morning Post, October 2001
  How to pick the right toy for your child
  
  
• Child’s play a serious science
  South China Morning Post, July 2001
  How to pick the right playgroup for your child

Health

• Survival of the Fittest
  Asiaweek, August 1999
  Asian hospitals fight it out for survival
  
  
• Testing issues
  Asiaweek, May 1999
  A new Aids vaccine is tested in Thailand
  
  
• New air for a new age
  Asiaweek, July 1998
  Oxygen bars in Hong Kong

Travel and Culture

• Next time you are in Mumbai....
  Time, February 2010
  
  
• Past Perfect
  One, February 2010
  
  
• Elle Power List: Anuvab Pal and Kunaal Roy Kapoor
  Elle, November 2009
  
  
• Ensler's 'Emotional Creature' Starts Off in India
  WeNews, November 2009
  
  
• Staying Fit, the Bollywood Way
  The New York Times, July 2009
  
  
• India embraces the 'monologues'
  The Guardian Weekly, May 2009
  
  
• A Taste of Persia, and Old Bombay
  The New York Times, March 2009
  
  
• ‘Slumdog’ Success Calls Attention to Tours in Mumbai
  The New York Times, March 2009
  
  
• In Mumbai, Street Food Without the Street
  The New York Times, February 2009
  
  
• Insider’s Mumbai:The Kala Ghoda Festival
  International Herald Tribune, February 2009
  
  
• Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto’s amazing rise to fame
  The Daily Mirror, January 2009
  
  
• Snack Attack, Mumbai. Eating Safe Street Food
  International Herald Tribune, January 2009
  
  
• Drawings of India, in Mumbai, speak to a city's survival
  International Herald Tribune, December 2008
  
  
• Mumbai City Guide
  Scanorama, December 2008
  
  
• The Pages of History
  Mint, Jun 28, 2008
  
  
• Holding on to old Mumbai
  Guardian Weekly, Dec 6, 2007
  
  
• The jungle under water
  Hindustan Times, August 2, 2007
  
  
• Seeking the Minotaur
  Hindustan Times, April 2007
  Grandeur and mystery of Knossos, Crete

• Hot Water Hedonism
  Hindustan Times, February 2007
  Hot springs in Japan

• Fusion or confusion
  Far Eastern Economic Review, February 2003
  Contemporary Asian arts try to define being Asian
  
  
• Headturning performers
  Asiaweek, South China Morning Post, November 1998
  Performance art in Bangkok
  
  
• Paws for Thought
  South China Morning Post, October 1998
  The Sphinx has a facelift

Book Reviews

• Kodak Moments
  The Daily Yomiuri, Oct 2003
  
  
• The New Silk Road
  The Daily Yomiuri, Aug 2002
  
  
• Clash of Civilizations
  Far Eastern Economic Review, Aug 2001
  
  
• Atwood excels without excess
  South China Morning Post, Sept 2000
  
  
• New respect for old rebels
  Asiaweek, Jan 2000
  
  
• Same India but a better cover
  South China Morning Post, July 1999
  
  
• Growing Pains in Asia
  Asiaweek, Jan 1999

Parenting

• In a Barbie World
  Mint, Dec 1, 2007

Arts and Entertainment

• Variety Fair: Prithvi festival, 2009, celebrated the universal language of theatre
  The Caravan, December 2009