• 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

• 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

• 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