selected writing
books
syllabus for the internet: the arcades project, walter benjamin in the 21st century (real life, 2019)
in the "low," on bombay and hedonism (guernica, 2020)
an ode to bad employees, on thompson, bukowski, and work (la review of books, 2018)
reading maeve brennan alone at the bar, on being a girl interrupted (electric lit, 2018)
between information and experience, walter benjamin's the storyteller essays (la review of books, 2019)
roxane gay's "hunger" (electric lit, 2017)
essays
beyond millennial burnout: the "treat yourself" narrative & what simone de beauvoir can teach us about joy (the point, 2019)
the concept of work, from the quarantine journal series (the point, 2020)
confronting chaos: on safety and sketchiness (the hindu, 2018)
self-help in the age of digital reproduction: walter benjamin and bullet journal (real life, 2018)
rereading jane jacobs in quarantine (la review of books, 2020)
consider the cop show, on glorification of the nypd (la review of books, 2018)
rethinking safety and public space in india (the scribbler, 2015)
real development (helter skelter, 2014)
architecture, design, cities
verticals, on how bombay escapes the skyline fetish (helter skelter, 2018)
colonial cartography: brooklyn gentrification/social media mapping as an extension of imperialism (real life, 2019) - excerpted on eflux
crystal visions, on legibility of cities as a form of augmented reality (real life, 2018) - translated to portuguese for moostro
late life urbanism, on making a city for its least profitable users (la review of books, 2019)
is yimbyism the answer to california's housing crisis? (tl;dr: no) (new republic, 2020)
"scaffolding" at the center for architecture, nyc: on impermanence as anti-capitalist (untapped cities, 2017)
paul rudolph's modulightor building (untapped cities, 2017)
on urban transformation, the paternalism of "preservation" (urbz, 2016)
reporting
an anarchist in the courtroom (the indypendent, 2018)
small business jobs survival act in nyc, its history and context, and its city council hearing (the indypendent, 2018)
"you cannot liberate people by force," germaine greer on western and indian feminism (culture trip, 2015)
profile of naveen shakil, brooklyn/karachi-based street artist (j'ai-pur journal, 2017)
art & exhibitions
"sex and the so-called city," storefront for art and architecture (untapped cities, 2018)
"a locus of moving points," southeast queens biennial (untapped cities, 2018)
"beyond suffrage," museum of the city of new york (untapped cities, 2017)
"hotbed," on greenwich village activism, new york historical society (untapped cities, 2017)
"hold these truths," nathan cummings foundation (untapped cities, 2017)
public policy
pirates in digital india, on intellectual property as oppressive western ideal (indian national interest, 2015)
the state, religion, and civil society (indian national interest, 2015)
syllabus for the internet: the arcades project, walter benjamin in the 21st century (real life, 2019)
in the "low," on bombay and hedonism (guernica, 2020)
an ode to bad employees, on thompson, bukowski, and work (la review of books, 2018)
reading maeve brennan alone at the bar, on being a girl interrupted (electric lit, 2018)
between information and experience, walter benjamin's the storyteller essays (la review of books, 2019)
roxane gay's "hunger" (electric lit, 2017)
essays
beyond millennial burnout: the "treat yourself" narrative & what simone de beauvoir can teach us about joy (the point, 2019)
the concept of work, from the quarantine journal series (the point, 2020)
confronting chaos: on safety and sketchiness (the hindu, 2018)
self-help in the age of digital reproduction: walter benjamin and bullet journal (real life, 2018)
rereading jane jacobs in quarantine (la review of books, 2020)
consider the cop show, on glorification of the nypd (la review of books, 2018)
rethinking safety and public space in india (the scribbler, 2015)
real development (helter skelter, 2014)
architecture, design, cities
verticals, on how bombay escapes the skyline fetish (helter skelter, 2018)
colonial cartography: brooklyn gentrification/social media mapping as an extension of imperialism (real life, 2019) - excerpted on eflux
crystal visions, on legibility of cities as a form of augmented reality (real life, 2018) - translated to portuguese for moostro
late life urbanism, on making a city for its least profitable users (la review of books, 2019)
is yimbyism the answer to california's housing crisis? (tl;dr: no) (new republic, 2020)
"scaffolding" at the center for architecture, nyc: on impermanence as anti-capitalist (untapped cities, 2017)
paul rudolph's modulightor building (untapped cities, 2017)
on urban transformation, the paternalism of "preservation" (urbz, 2016)
reporting
an anarchist in the courtroom (the indypendent, 2018)
small business jobs survival act in nyc, its history and context, and its city council hearing (the indypendent, 2018)
"you cannot liberate people by force," germaine greer on western and indian feminism (culture trip, 2015)
profile of naveen shakil, brooklyn/karachi-based street artist (j'ai-pur journal, 2017)
art & exhibitions
"sex and the so-called city," storefront for art and architecture (untapped cities, 2018)
"a locus of moving points," southeast queens biennial (untapped cities, 2018)
"beyond suffrage," museum of the city of new york (untapped cities, 2017)
"hotbed," on greenwich village activism, new york historical society (untapped cities, 2017)
"hold these truths," nathan cummings foundation (untapped cities, 2017)
public policy
pirates in digital india, on intellectual property as oppressive western ideal (indian national interest, 2015)
the state, religion, and civil society (indian national interest, 2015)
