Sepia Tone

a Catapult column

The Women Who Don’t Bend in ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ - April 2021

On ‘Mississippi Masala’ and the Politics of Desire - September 2021

Who Gets to Tell Stories About India and Its People? - April 2022

The Fraught Identity of ‘Where’s the Party Yaar’ - June 2021

‘The Namesake’ and the Stories We Tell About Our Parents - January 2022

Finding Nostalgia in Diasporic Film - July 2022

More Writing

Essays

^{HAZLITT 2017}

My ‘Just in Case’ Inheritance

QUARTZ 2017

The Pursuit of White Women

PopSugar 2017 

We Need to Talk About This Issue With the Women’s March

iD 2019

The Women Taking on India’s Sexual Harassment Problem

TEEN VOGUE 2017

Dressing Like My Immigrant Mother in Donald Trump's America

Profiles & Interviews

Raveena Is Taking Advice from the Moon

Meet Lazybones, The MS Paint Artist Acting As Tumblr's Unlicensed Therapist

Curator Kimberly Drew on Black Art, Social Media, and Taking Selfies in Museums

The Immaculate Kingdom of Anik Khan

The Shining World of Kohinoorgasm

Papi Juice Is the NYC Party Making Space For Queer Artists of Color

Mitski Tells Us What’s On Her Mind

Meet the Plus-size Japanese Instagram Star Leading a Body-image Revolution

Features

How the Healthcare System Fails People Who Don't Speak English, SPLINTER

How Indian Streetwear Brand NorBlack NorWhite Is Changing
the Fashion Industry, TEEN VOGUE

The Webseries 'Brown Girls' Is a Love Letter to Queer Women of Color, BROADLY

This All-Girl Punjabi Dance Team is Crushing Their Male Competitors, BROADLY

This Modeling Agency Is On A Mission To Mainstream Trans Beauty, HUFFPOST

Generation Revolution’ Explores Protests and Activist Groups in the U.K., TEEN VOGUE

Papi Juice Is the NYC Party Making Space For Queer Artists of Color, TEEN VOGUE

There's 'Bad Rap' and Then There's Brown Rap, PAPER

How A Traditional Indian Dance Form Found A Home In American Colleges, HUFFPOST