Personal Essays
“Bangles,” Complete Sentence, March 2024
“Fight from Away,” Salvation South, October 2023
“Directions to a Vanishing Place,” 7 AM Novelist Podcast
“Wine Warmth”, Still: The Journal: Winter, 2018
“Approximating India”, Tributaries at The Fourth River, March 2019
“Finding the Holy in an Unholy Coconut”, Superstition Review, Issue 23
“A Hindu Hillbilly Elegy”, Longridge Review, October 2019—Barnhill Prize Finalist
“Neighbors”, Still: The Journal, October 2019—Creative Nonfiction Contest, Judge’s Choice
“Be Like Wilt”, The Bitter Southerner, November 2019
“The Blue-Red Divide”, Kestrel, Winter 2019
“Chemical Bonds”, Kenyon Review Online, May/June 2020
“How a Haircut Helped Me Untangle My Identity as a Queer Indian Woman”, Catapult, June 25th, 2020
“Shame Shame”, Cosmonauts Avenue, July 2020
“Nine Forms of the Goddess,” Hong Kong Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, anthologized in Sweeter Voices Still, then featured on Lithub, January 8, 2021.
Puzzle Rules, Complete Sentence, January 8, 2022.
Opinion Pieces
Hate is in “Navy Blue” Mass., Too: It’s Time to Raise the Volume on Love | Cognoscenti
The Most Important Lessons Teachers Impart Aren’t Dictated by a Pacing Guide | Edweek
I’ve Been Working Hard— on Doing Less | Cognoscenti
A Return to Pre-Pandemic “Normal” Is Not the Way to Fix Mass. Schools | Cognoscenti
It’s Been a Long, Arduous Week for Mass. Teachers. Why Won’t Our State Leaders Apologize? | Cognoscenti
What Teachers Think Is—and Isn’t—Working About School This Year | EdWeek
“Unlearning” The Rules About What a Leader Looks Like | Cognoscenti
What’s Missing From Back to School This Year? The Time to Heal | Cognoscenti
13 Views on How the Pandemic Will Shape the Future | Commonwealth Magazine
Students Respond to Adults’ Fixation on Learning Loss | Edweek
Why Landing on the “Best Schools” List Is Not Something to Celebrate | Cognoscenti
I Am From Here | Cognoscenti
I Fought To Keep My School from Closing. But At What Cost? | Cognoscenti
A High School Diploma, Even for a Valedictorian, Will Never Be Enough | Cognoscenti
My Parents May Be “Acceptable Immigrants, But None of Us Are Safe | Cognoscenti
We Will Open the Gate and Welcome Strangers | Cognoscenti
Yes, Schools Should Be Safe, But So Should Students’ Neighborhoods | Cognoscenti
Newton North High School: Talking To Students When A Symbol Of Racial Hatred Is Unfurled Close To Home | Cognoscenti