Writing
Journal Articles
In case you do not have institutional access to any of the writing below, please email me. I will happily provide a copy.
Published
2025. “Surface Tensions: roads, potholes, and the embodied politics of driving.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. (Online first)
2024. “Drivers of Masculinity: marginality, manhood, and mobilities during a pandemic.” Area. (Online first)
2023. “Gendering Infrastructure: An Introduction”, co-author to introduction to special issue. Gendering Infrastructure, edited by Yaffa Truelove and Sneha Annavarapu Roadsides (009) 1-8
2022. “The Weight of Waiting: Suspended Mobility and Deferred Aspirations Amongst Cab Drivers in Hyderabad”. Social Change, 52(2): 187-202.
2022. “Risky roads, safe suspicions”: gender, class, and cabs in Hyderabad, India” Social Problems, 69(3): 761-780.
2018. “Where do all the lovers go? The cultural politics of public kissing in Mumbai, India” Journal of Historical Sociology, 31(4): 405-419.
2017. “Consuming Wellness, Producing Difference: the case of a wellness center in India” Journal of Consumer Culture, 18(3): 414-432.
2013. “Honor Killings, Human Rights and the Law in India: the scope for a ‘right to have rights’” Economic and Political Weekly, 48(50): 129-132.
Book Chapters
Forthcoming. “Licenses for Sale: brokers and bribery in urban India”. in A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption, edited by Marco Garrido, Marina Zaloznaya, and Nicholas Hoover Wilson. Cambridge University Press.
In Progress
“Law in Motion: speeding, traffic policing, and infrastructural dispositions in urban India”
“Moving Men: masculinity, infrastructure, and urban belonging in Hyderabad, India”
Public Sociology
2020- Host, New Books Network
2020- Co-founder and editor, Ethnographic Marginalia
2023. “Gendering Infrastructure”, co-editor, Roadsides (open-access)
2022. “Borders Cast Long Shadows on Nations: Talking with Malini Sur” Public Books:
2021. “Difficult Encounters, Fragmented Positionalities: Gender, Caste, and Hindutva in the field” LSE Engenderings.
2021. “Licenses for Sale: of brokers and bribes in India”. Contexts, 20(1): 41-46.
2021. “Distance is measured in time”. Economic and Political Weekly, 56 (31).
2021. Invited speaker. Webinar titled “Doing Digital Ethnography”. Sciences Po CERI.
2021. Invited talk titled “Auto Rani: an aunty, an America Ammayi, and an autorickshaw”. Critical Aunty Studies symposium. Tufts University.
2021. Invited guest on “Feminist City” podcast, an initiative by the Vidhi Center for Legal Policy. Listen to the podcast here.
2020. Discussant comments on Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research for Book Salon, 115th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
2020. “Home Is Where the Revolution Is” Economic and Political Weekly, 55(2).
2019. “Driver-Citizens and Technical Safety in India” (co-authored with Bhoomika Joshi). Platypus, blog of the
Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC).
2019. “Risky Choices: Women and Cabs in Hyderabad, India”. Public Books.
2019. “Driving Toward Development” Sectors 8(1), Sociology of Development newsletter.
2019. “Main Apni Sabse Favourite Hoon: Chronicles of an Instaspam Queen.” Agents of Ishq.
2018. “Aap karthe mere saath sex?” (Will you have sex with me?) Agents of Ishq.
· Reprint: 2023 in Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx, edited by Shilpa Phadke and Nithila Kanagasabai. New Delhi: Yoda Press
· Reprint: 27 March 2021 in Times of India
2018. “Tinder: the place where true love goes to experience a slow death?” ThREAD, The Hindu.
2017. “How to be cool: Quit Trying to be cool”. ThREAD, The Hindu.
2016. “Of Latte Love and Kaapi Nirvana: the public life of coffee in India”. StandArt.
2016. “The Profitability of Leisure”. ThREAD, The Hindu.
Book Reviews
2024. Romit Chowdhury. (2023). City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport. Rutgers University Press. Anthropology and Humanism.
2021. Lisa Björkman eds. (2021). Bombay Brokers. Duke University Press. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
2021. Inglis, Patrick. (2019) Narrow Fairways: Getting by and falling behind in the New India. Oxford University Press. Work and Occupations.
2021. Lederman, Jacob. 2020. Chasing World Class Urbanism: Global Policy versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires. University of Minnesota Press. American Journal of Sociology 127 (1)
2021. “Hope and Capital: Talking India with Ravinder Kaur.” Public Books.
This is an interview with Dr. Ravinder Kaur, author of Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India.
2020. Behl, Natasha. (2019) Gendered Citizenship: understanding gendered violence in democratic India. Oxford University Press. Gender and Society.
2019. “India’s Youth: Small Chances, Big Dreams”. Public Books. A review of Snigdha Poonam’s book Dreamers.
2017. Anand, Nikhil. (2017) Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai. Duke University Press. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(5).
2017. Nakassis, Constantine. V. (2016) Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India. University of Chicago Press. South Asia 40 (1)
2017. Anjaria, Jonathan .S. (2016) The Slow Boil: Hawkers and Public Space in Mumbai. Stanford University Press. South Asia History and Culture 8 (1)
2017. Awasthi, Deepa (2016) Khap Panchayat: Women and Honour Killing. Kalpaz Publications. Economic and Political Weekly 52(41).
2016. Srivastava, Sanjay. (2015) Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon. Oxford University Press. Journal of Urban Studies, 53(12)
Creative Writing
I also dabble in writing flash fiction and poetry. Please see my blog for a sample of this.