Other Writings
Fiction
To Tame A Monster (Pleiades, Spring 2025)
Open Secrets (The Brussels Review, Belgium, Spring 2025)
God Made Chardonnay, the Devil Made Merlot (Litro, Jan 2025)
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (Jerry Jazz Musician, Sept 2024)
Mahatma Gandhi's Pen (Bewildering Stories, Jan 2024, and Outercast, [Sweden] Winter 2007/2008)
The Cow in His Throat (Books & Pieces, August 2023, and Schuylkill Valley Journal, Fall 2009)
Boys on the Bus (Across the Margin, July 2023)
Swayamvara (Brink, Spring 2023)
Carabas (The Journal, Spring 2023)
Mardy Gras (The MacGuffin, Fall 2022)
Vermin (Descant, 2021)
The Queen of Artichoke Hearts (The Other Side of Hope, UK, Autumn 2021)
New Lives, Old Habits (Spellbinder, UK, Autumn 2021)
The Saint (Baltimore Review, Summer 2021 – includes audio file)
The Worth of a Miracle (Black Lives, anthology from Nottingham Writers Studio published by Big White Shed, Britain, March 2021)
How Does Your Garden Grow? (The Broken Plate, Spring 2020)
At Home and Away (Epiphany, Spring/ Summer 2020)
Kismet (Pembroke Magazine, No: 52, 2020)
Two Kinds of Goodbye (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Fall 2019 – inaugural issue of the magazine)
The Spell (The Account, Fall 2018)
Faith (Santa Monica Review, Fall 2018)
Ghost Baby (Kweli, May 2018)
The English Widow (Gargoyle, Issue 68, 2018)
Degree Coffee (Hawaii Review, Spring 2017)
On Earth As It Is In Heaven (Santa Monica Review, Fall 2016)
Pigs is Pigs and Eggs is Eggs (The Iowa Review Spring 2015)
Father's Day (The Chariton Review, Fall 2013)
Silhouettes and Shadows (Bellevue Literary Review, Fall 2013)
Many Lifetimes in a Single Day (in "The Cabinet," anthology from The Potomac Review, 2013)
Mr. Chowdhury's Chowder (The Prague Revue, November 2012)
The Lady Who Drank Mouthwash (The MacGuffin, Winter 2012)
Just Passing Through (Hawaii Pacific Review, 2010)
Phantoms (Zahir, April 2010)
Between Dog and God (The MacGuffin, Spring/Summer 2009)
The Peacock's Cry (Thema, Spring 2009)
Passing the Torch (Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fall 2008)
Spiders (The Chaffin Journal, 2008)
The Wrath of Allah (The MacGuffin, Spring/Summer 2008)
The Love Lesson (Cause and Effect, May 2008)
The Red Ribbon (The Healing Muse, Fall 2007)
The Painful Discovery (The Healing Muse, Fall 2006)
Afternoon Heat (Bellevue Literary Review, Fall 2005)
A Woman of Society (Women's Era [India] 1982)
Non-Fiction
Happy Days with Perry Mason (Gargoyle, March 2025)
Wash or Wipe? That is the Question (Arasi, Issue 1.1, October 2022)
The Milk in Many Lands (Stonecrop, 2020 issue)
With No Inkling of the Contents: Viewing Narnia Through a Hindu Lens (The Mantle, Mar 2016)
Why Mona Lisa Smiles (The Prague Revue, September 2014)
Tomorrow, They'll Call It Something Else (The Prague Revue, August 2014)
On Service (The Prague Revue, July 2014)
Heads, I Win! The Pushmi-Pullyu in Fact and Fiction (The Prague Revue, May 2014)
The Queen and I: The Story of Queen Victoria & her Indian Confidant (The Prague Revue, Apr 2014)
And Kings Can Become Pregnant (The Prague Revue, Mar 2014)
Polio is not Smallpox (The Prague Revue, Feb 2014)
If Stones Could Speak (The Prague Revue, Jan 2014)
Jaya He! The Composition of India's National Anthem (The Prague Revue, Dec 2013)
A Tale of Three Houses: Menabilly, Milton Hall & Manderley (The Prague Revue, Oct 2013)
Virus, Vaccine and Song: The Little Known Story of the Race to Cure Polio (The Prague Revue, Sep 2013)
Red Shoes (The Prague Revue, July 2013)
The Vindication of Oscar Wilde (The Prague Revue, June 2013)
The Plague in Rhyme or Not (The Prague Revue, May 2013)
On the Fall of the House of Orwell (The Millions, May 2, 2013)
Descent from the Clouds: An Atlas of Rebirth (The Prague Revue, April 2013)
The Author's Intent: From Print to Screen (The Prague Revue, March 2013)
Stirring Words, Moving Images: When Novels Become Movies (The Prague Revue, February 2013)
Lurching Towards A Hobbesian Era (The Prague Revue, January 2013)
The Square on the Hypotenuse: A Story of Untrained Mathematical Genius (The Prague Revue,
December 2012)
Rebecca: The Art of the Sentence (Tin House – The Open Bar blog, September 2012)
From Pigs to Presidents: My Sojourn in an American Comic Strip (Under the Sun, 2012)
Docere and Discere: Notes from my Passage through Medical School (Under the Sun, 2010)
Oakhill Potatoes and Chicken Curry (Schuylkill Valley Journal, Fall 2009)
When Smiles Become Memories (Hoi Polloi, Summer/Fall 2009)
The Viral Mirror (Drash, Vol 2, 2008)
The Graveyard of Doubts (Mid-American Review, Fall 2006)
Magic Men. (Burroughs Bulletin No: 59, Summer 2004)
Playing the Creator. (Burroughs Bulletin No: 55, Summer 2003)
In Pursuit of Happiness (Burroughs Bulletin No: 52, Fall 2002)
Chinnereth or Galilee? (Burroughs Bulletin No: 49, Winter 2002)
On the Lives and Deaths of Kings and Queens. (Burroughs Bulletin No: 48, Fall 2001)
Leper Kings, Witch Doctors, and Stricken Artists: Leprosy in Burroughs & W. Somerset Maugham. (Burroughs Bulletin No: 46, Spring 2001)
The Sounds of English. (Verbatim: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 2, 1990)
Selected Journalism
American Lotus: The Cultural Strengths of Kamala Harris (Medium, September 2024)
Bringing in the Sheaves (Serenade, January 2023)
The Second Elizabeth – A Life Appreciated (Merion West, September 2022)
There Will Always Be Stars In The Sky (Serenade, March 2022)
The Queens on the Throne of Kings (Merion West, November 2021)
Ode to Beethoven – Parts I & II (Serenade, November & December 2020)
Our Immanuel Master (Serenade, October 2020)
Lydian Nadhaswaram: From Music to Acting – and Back (Serenade, September 2020)
Lydian Nadhaswaram: The World, The Moon, and Music (Serenade, March 29, 2019)
Lydian Nadhaswaram: Beyond the Blindfold (Serenade, March 13, 2019)
Lydian Nadhaswaram's Bumblebee (Serenade, March 6, 2019)
Gandhi and the Mantle of the Mahatma (The Mantle, September 30, 2019)
Has India Had Its Stonewall Moment? (The Mantle, September 5, 2019)
Jaya He! The Story of India's National Anthem (Serenade, Aug 2023 and The Mantle, January 24, 2019)
Creating Music From the Wind: V. Amirthavarshini (Serenade, December 2018)
When Western Choirs Sing Indian Music – Parts I, II & III (Serenade, May-Jun 2018)
Grand Strokes from a Li'l Mozart of Madras (Business Line, Chennai, India: Apr 21, 2018)
The Grand Piano Chase (The Hindu, Chennai, India: Nov 9, 2017)
King of Melody, Lord of Rhythm: Lydian Nadhaswaram's Musical Journey (The Mantle, May 2017)
An Ecological Movement Sprouts From Literature (The Mantle, Sep 2016)
The Birth, Death, and Reincarnation of the Harmonium (The Mantle, Jul 2016) [Reprinted: Scroll.in & Serenade]
Remembering Dr. Solomon (The Hindu, Chennai, India: Dec 1, 2015)
Darwin, Evolution and the Swine Flu (The San Diego Union Tribune, Apr 30, 2009)
Battling AIDS with Personal Beliefs (The San Diego Union Tribune, Dec 1, 2008)
Cricket: More than Just a Game (The Independent Weekly, Adelaide, Australia: Feb 9, 2008)
This War Must Be Won (The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego, CA: Dec 1, 2007)
No Sex, Please! This is India (The San Diego Union Tribune, Apr 26, 2007)
A Hidden Bomb that Threatens the World (The San Diego Union Tribune, Nov 26, 2006)
The Tsunami As a Teacher. (The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego, CA: Jun 24, 2005)
A Church's Message:'To The City and the World.' (The San Diego Union Tribune, Apr 6, 2005)
Hope and Despair: Faces of AIDS. (Frontline [India] Sep 6, 1996)
India's Strife Contradicts Religion's True Message. (The Hartford Courant, Hartford, CT : Dec 21, 1992)
Has the Nehru Dynasty Come to An End in India? (The Hartford Courant, Hartford, CT : May 30, 1991)
Two Cities Called Madras – three article series. (The Madras Pioneer, Madras, Oregon: Sep 1989)
Beauty, Strife Characterize Sri Lanka: An Island in Turmoil. (Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IA: Nov 26, 1987)
The Afrikaner Gospel (West Africa [London, UK], Jul 21, 1986)