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"Anita Desai" Critical Survey of Long Fiction. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. II. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1983: 725-732.
"Raja Rao." Critical Survey of Long Fiction. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. VI. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1983: 2205-2216.
"Indian English Poetry." Critical Survey of Poetry. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1984: 1989-2003.
"Pamela's Progress: Social Criticism and Upward Mobility in Richardson's Pamela." Dibrugarh Journal of English Studies. No. 5 (1986): 23-36.
"Nissim Ezekiel as Mystical Poet." Commonwealth Quarterly. 13.34 (Dec. 1986 March 1987): 1 6.
"Rhetorical Strategies and Techniques in `Brit,' Chapter 58, Moby Dick." Dibrugarh Journal of English Studies. No. 6 (1987): 107-115.
"The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa." In Commonwealth Fiction. Ed. R. K. Dhawan. Vol. II. Delhi: Classical Publishing Company, 1988: 80-103.
"J. Krishnamurti's Commentaries on Living: An Approach." Triveni. 57.3 (Oct-Dec 1988): 61-67.
"The Return of Involvement: A Review Article on Recent Indian Poetry in English." Kavya Bharati. No. 2 (1989): 41-47.
"The Golden Gate and the Quest for Self Realization." In Contemporary Commonwealth Fiction (ACLALS Bulletin Eighth Series, (no. 1). Ed. John Thieme. Aarhus: ACLALS, 1989: 58-73.
"T S Eliot through Indian Eyes: Mulk Raj Anand's Conversations in Bloomsbury." The Literary Criterion 24.3 4 (1989): 50-68.
"The Invasion of Theory: An Indian Response." (Shorter Version) Indian Journal of English Studies (1989): 74 82. The full text in New Quest 81 (May June, 1990): 151-161.
"Towards Redefining Boundaries: The Indo Canadian Encounter in Days and Nights in Calcutta. In Post colonial Preoccupations in Canadian and Indian English Fiction. Ed. Jameela Begum. Trivandrum: Institute of English, 1989: 80-98.
"Inside and Outside the Whale: Politics and the New Indian English Novel." In The New Indian Novel in English. Ed. Viney Kirpal. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1990: 215-226.
"The Ideology of Form: Notes on the Third World Novel." Social Scientist. 18.8 9 (August September 1990): 71 84; revised version in Journal of Commonwealth Literature 26.1 (1991): 19-32.
"Vivekananda's Letters: An Introductory Reading." In Perspectives on Ramakrishna Vivekananda Vedanta Tradition. Eds. M. Sivaramakrishna and Sumita Roy. New Delhi: Sterling, 1991: 174-185.
"A Critique for Indian Criticism: Options and Challenges." New Quest. 85 (Jan Feb 1991): 29-36.
"Distinguishing Themselves: New Fiction by Expatriate Indian Woman." World Literature Today. Winter 1991: 72-74.
"Caste of Indian English Novel." Economic and Political Weekly 26.40 (5 October, 1991): 2298-2301.
"`Howzatt Umpire!' or Ten Meditations on English in India." New Quest (Sept Oct 1991): 285-291.
"The Chessmaster and His Moves: A Review of Reviews and an Introduction." In Comparative Perspectives on Indian Literature. Ed. A. Ramakrishna Rao. New Delhi: Prestige Publishers, 1992: 81-102.
"Social Background to Contemporary Indian Literature." New Quest. 94 (July August, 1992): 221-229.
"Tribute: My Shelley Scrapbook." BEAM. January 1993: 8-15.
"The Colonized as the Colonizers and the Colonizers as the Colonized." Journal of Contemporary Thought. 1992: 57-64.
"On Raja Rammohun Roy's Response to the West." In Indian Responses to Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century. Eds. Alok Bhalla and Sudhir Chandra. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1993: 232 260. Also in New Quest, no. 99 (May June 1993).
"Beyond English: Teli's Larger Agenda." In Provocations: The Teaching of English in India. Eds. Sudhakar Marathe, Mohan Ramanan, and Robert Bellarmine. Madras: Orient Longman, 1993: 49-58.
"Critique of Communism in Raja Rao's Comrade Kirillov." In Image of India in the Indian Novel in English, 1960 1985. Eds. Sudhakar Pandey and R. Raj Rao. Bombay: Orient Longman, 1993. 69-83.
"Indian Thought in The Silver Pilgrimage." In A. Ramakrishna Rao and M. Sivaramakrishna, eds. When East Meets West: Indian Thought in Anglo Indian and Indo Anglian Fiction. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1994. 68-70.
"Metamorphosis as Metaphor: Shape Shifting in Girish Karnad's Plays." In Sudhakar Pandey and Freya Barua, eds. New Directions in Indian Drama. New Delhi: Prestige Publishers, 1994. 85-96.
"An Absence of Erotics? A Poet's Search for Eros." BEAM. 8 (Jan 1994): 2-7.
"Postmodernism and India: Some Preliminary Animadversions." In A Way of Leaving So as to Stay: Papers in Honour of S. Viswanathan. Eds. Sudhakar Marathe, et al. Madras: T. R. Publications, 1994. 89-110.
"Indian (English) Criticism: Some Notes." Indian Literature. 160 (March April 1994). 70-78.
"The Crisis of Contemporary Indian and Nayantara Sahgal's Fiction." World Literature Today. Special Issue on Indian Literatures: In the Fifth Decade of Independence. 68.2 (Spring 1994) 291 298. Also in Woman in Indo Anglian Fiction. Ed. Naresh Jain. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 1998.
"Indianness: Essence or Construct? Critiquing a Seminar on `Indian Literature: Concept and Problems.'" New Quest 105 (May June 1994) 155-161.
"Poetry Makes US; We Don't Make Poetry." Poiesis: A Journal of Poetry Circle, Bombay. 3.2 3 (Monsoon Winter 1994) 37-43.
"Indo Anglian as Anglo Indian: Ideology, Politics, and Cross Cultural Representation." In Postcolonial Perspectives on Anglo Indian Literature. Eds. Vrinda Nabar and Nilufer E. Bharucha. Bombay: University of Bombay, 1994; also in New Quest 111 (May June 1995) 133-142.
"The Stephanian School of Literature? Some Objections and Clarifications." The Stephanian. 52.2 (December 1994) 68-74.
"Michael Madhusudan Dutt: Reclaiming a Kinship." In New Perspectives in Indian Literature in English. Eds. C. R. Yaravintelimath, et al. New Delhi: Sterling, 1995: 103-111.
"Tradition, Modernity and Post Modernity/Region, Nation, and Internation: Challenges in Theory." Littcrit. 21.1 (40) June 1995, 5 22; also in Indian Literary Criticism in English; Critics, Texts, Issues. P. K. Rajan, ed. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2004: 260-275.
"Vaidhata ki khoj mein: alochana ki rah." Sakshatkar. 191 192 (Nov Dec 1995) 149-155.
"Feminism and Commonwealth Literature." BEAM, January 1996: 21-26.
"The Holy Tongue: An Appreciation of K. Satchidanandan's Poetry." Kavya Bharati, 1997: 93-101.
"Political and Cultural Allegory in Nayantara Sahgal's Rich Like Us." In Festschrift for Professor L.S.R. Krishna Shastry. Ed. by S. Visveswara Rao. New Delhi: Prestige Publication, 1996. Also in Woman in Indo Anglian Fiction. Ed. Naresh Jain. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 1998.
"Coping with Post colonialism." In Interrogating Post colonialism: Theory, Text and Context. Eds. Harish Trivedi and Meenakshi Mukherjee. Shimla: IIAS, 1996: 37-47.
"The Making of English Studies in India: the Seventies in St. Stephen's." The Stephanian. 54.1 (1996): 5-18.
"Beyond Nativism: Towards a Contemporary Indian Tradition in Criticism." In Nativism: Essays in Literary Criticism. Ed. Makarand Paranjape. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1997: 153-176.
"Journey to Ithaca: A Letter." In The Postmodern Indian Novel in English. Ed. Viney Kirpal. Bombay: Allied Publishers, 1997. 400-410.
"'Clip Joint' by U.R. Anantha Murthy – A Response." Indian Literature, 179 (May June 1997): 124-135.
"Is India Civilized? A Commentary" in Sri Aurobindo and the New Age: Essays in Memory of Kishor Gandhi. Eds. K. D. Sethna and Nirodbaran. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, 1997: 90-105.
"Sacred India" in Making a Difference: A Collection of Essays. Ed. Rukmini Sekhar. New Delhi: SPIC MACAY, 1997: 133-153.
"Swaraj and Post modernism." Kala Prayojan 10 (Oct Dec 1997): 102-114.
"Non violent Social Transformation Lessons from Svadhyaya." The Eye. 5.1 (October December 1997): 88-96.
"From Absent Authority to Present Responsibility: An Agenda for Indian (English) Criticism." Ariel. 29.1 (January 1998): 11 31. Also in Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings. Malashri Lal, et. al., eds. Delhi: Doaba Publications, 2001: 11-31.
"Post Independence Indian English Literature: Towards a New Literary History." Economic and Political Weekly. 33.18 (2 May 1998): 1049-1056. Revised version in Indian Horizons 46.1-2 (January-June 1999). Literary India Special Issue: 105-132. Revised version with new Afterword and Korean translation in Asia: Magazine of Asian Literature. 2.4 (Winter 2007): 62-119.
"Bypassing Postmodernism: The Burden of Creating Meaningful Knowledge in Contemporary India." In Sandalwood: Essays and Articles in Honour of Dr. Shankar Mokashi Punekar. Eds. K. Raghavendra Rao, K. D. Kurtkoti, and Basavaraj Naikar. Dharwad: Dr. Shankar Mokashi Punekar Felicitation Committee, 1998, 16-38.
"Common Myths and Misconceptions about Indian English Literature." New Quest 129 (May June 1998): 134 144; revised version in Rethinking Indian English Literature. Eds. U. M. Nanavati and P.C. Kar. Delhi: Pencraft International, 2000: 55-70.
"Modernism and Its Discontents: Observations on Recent Indian English Poetry." In Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial Indian Literature in English: Essays in Honour of Nissim Ezekiel. Eds. Nilufer E. Bharucha and Vrinda Nabar. New Delhi: Vision Books, 1998: 43-60.
"The Difficult Pilgrimage: The Chessmaster and His Moves and Its Readers." In The Word as Mantra: The Art of Raja Rao. Ed. Robert L. Hardgrave. New Delhi: Katha and Dept. of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1998: 108-132.
"Theorising Postcolonial Difference: Culture, Nation, Civilization." SPAN 47 (October 1998): 1-17. Also in Europe in the Second Millenium: A hegemony Achieved? Eds. Rila Mukherjee and Kunal Chattopadhyay. Kolkata: Progressive Publishera and Centre for European Studies, 2005: 224-241.
"Contrasting Peace Perspectives: Kant and Gandhi." New Quest 133 (January-February 1999): 401-411.
"Pilgrims and other travellers." India International Centre Quarterly. Spring-Winter 1999: 7-35.
"Home and Abroad: The Politics of Asian-American Representations: A Conversation with Makarand Paranjape." In The Diasporic Imagination: Asian American Writing, vol. 1, ed. Somdatta Mandal. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2000: 85-98.
"Hindi Hain Hum: A Vibhashi’s Romance with the National Language." Hindi. Inaugural issue. 2000.
"Na hanyate, it is not slain." India International Quarterly. Special Issue on "Faith in the age uncertainty." 26&27:4&1 (Spring 2000, incorporating Winter 1999): 180-187. Reprinted in Faith in the Age of Uncertainty. Ed. Sima Sharma. New Delhi: Indialog, 2002.
“Sruti, smriti, and the Individual: Rethinking the Idea of Parampara in India.” Critical Practice 7.1 (January 2000): 95-111.
“The Availability of Mahatma Gandhi: A Personal Report.” DES Journal of Social Sciences and Languages, Punjab University. 1.1 (January 2000): 3-16. Revised version published as “The Availability of Gandhi: Towards a Neo-Gandhian Praxis.” Gandhi’s Experiments with Truth. Ed. Richard L. Johnson. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006: 292-304.
“Stephanians and Others.” In The Fiction of St. Stephen’s. Eds. Aditya Bhattacharjea and Lola Chatterjee. Delhi: Ravi Dayal, 2000: 90-100.
“Afterword: What About Those Who Stayed Back Home? Interrogating the Privileging of Diasporic Writing.” In Shifting Continents/Colliding Cultures: Diaspora Writing of the Indian Subcontinent. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000: 225-245.
“In the Interstices of Tradition and Modernity: Exploring Ashis Nandy's Clandestine and Incommunicable Selves.” In Dissenting Knowledges, Open Futures. Ed. Vinay Lal. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000: 233-248.
“The Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi’s Educational Philosophy for the 21st Century.” In Education for the Third Millennium. Varghese Alengaden, ed. Indore: Dharma Bharati Institute, 2000: 15-28. Revised version published as “Radical Education and Social Transformation: Rethinking Nai Talim.” Gandhi Marg. July-September 2003: 205-214.
“Aesthetics and Ideology: The State of the Art.” Journal of Literary Criticism. 9.2 (Dec 2000): 36-44.
“The State of Poety: Reflections on the Changing Identity of Indian English Verse.” Chandrabhaga (New Series) 2 (2000): 66-88. Another version in Indian Poetry: Modernism and After. Ed. K. Satchidanandan. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2001. 122-152.
“Post-positions: A Selfish Review.” In The Post-Condition: Theory, Texts and Contexts. Eds. Manjit Inder Singh and Ranjit Kaur Kapoor. Patiala: Punjabi University, 2001.
“The Cultural World-System and Indian English Literature.” Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. 7.1 (Summer 2000): 97-108. Also in Sharing a Commonwealth. Ed. C.S.Lim et al. Kaula Lumpur: ACLALS and University of Malaya, 2001. 263-277.
“Spiritual Traditions of India and Modern Challenges.” DES Journal Social Sciences and Languages. 2 (2001): 1-10.
“The Pedagogy of the Translated.” Occasional Papers. Research Journal of the Panjab University Department of English. March 2001: 1-11. Also published in a Marathi translation as “Bhashantarit Sahityache Adhyapanshastra.” Sakshat. July-August-September 2003: 57-64. Another version in English Studies, Indian Perspectives. Ed. Makarand Paranjape. New Delhi: Mantra Books, 2005: 315-327.
"Rethinking America: A Trans-Civilizational Approach." In Rediscovering America: American Studies in the New Century. Ed. Kousar Azam. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 2001. 34-60.
“Decolonizing English Studies: Attaining Swaraj.” In Decolonization: A Search for Alternatives. Eds. Adesh Pal et al. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2001. 287-313. Another version in Critical Spectrum: Essays in Literary Culture in Honour of Professor C. D. Narasimhaiah. Ed. Satish C. Aikant. Delhi: Pencraft, 2004: 78-98.
“The Allegory of Rajmohan’s Wife (1864): National Culture and Colonialism in Asia’s First English Novel.” In Early Novels in India. Ed. Meenakshi Mukherjee. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2002. 143-160.
“Postcolonial Bollywood.” Evam: Form on Indian RePresentations. 1: 1&2 (2002): 268-276.
“Triple Ambivalence: Australia, Canada, and South Asia in the Diasporic Imagination.” Australian Canadian Studies. 20.2 ( 2002): 81-113.
Saundarya, Modernity, and the Aesthetics of Duality. Evam 2: 1&2 (2003): 305-316.
“Reworlding Homes: Colonialism, “National” Culture, and Post-National India.” India: A National Culture? Ed. Geeti Sen. New Delhi: India International Centre and Sage Publications, 2003. 114-126.
“Mirroring Ambivalences: Resistance and Reconciliation in South Asian Australia.” Resistance and Reconciliation: Writing in the Commonwealth. Bruce Bennett, et. al., eds. Canberra: ACLALS, 2003. 288-307. Rpt. In Australian Studies Now: An Introductory Reader in Australian Studies. Eds. Andrew Hassam with Amit Sarwal. New Delhi: Indialog Publications, 2007: 342-359.
“Home and Away: Colonialism and AlterNativity in India.” New Literatures Review. 40 (Winter 2003): 116-130.
“The Future of the Past and the Past of the Future.” In Reflections on Literature, Criticism and Theory: Essays in Honour of Professor Prafulla C Kar. Eds. Sura P Rath, Kailash C Baral, and D. Venkat Rao. New Delhi: Pencraft, 2004: 17-29.
“`The Reluctant Guru’: R. K. Narayan and The Guide.” South Asian Review. 24.2 (2003): 170-186. Earlier version published, with a transcript of questions and answers, as “Harendralal Basak Lecture for 2002.” Indian Writing in English: Proceedings of the First Harendralal Basak Lecture and Seminar. Kolkata: Department of English, 2003: 17-37.
“Sri Aurobindo’s ‘The Renaissance in India.’” Critical Practice. 10.2: (June 2003): 74-86. Also published as “The Renaissance in India?” in K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran): A Centenary Tribute. Ed. Sachidananda Mohanty. East Lyme, CT: The Integral Life Foundation, 2004: 362-377.
“Valedictory Address: Interrogating Diasporic Creativity: The Patan Initiative.” Theorizing and Critiquing Indian Diaspora. Eds. Kavita A. Sharma, Adesh Pal, and Tapas Chakrabarti. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2004: 42-73.
“The Third Eye and Two Ways of (Un)knowing: Gnosis, Alternative Modernities, and Postcolonial Futures.” Evam: Forum on Indian Representations. 3. 1&2 (2004): 263-276. Also in Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion. Eds. P. Bilimoria and A. B. Irvine. Zurich: Springer, 2009: 55-67.
“Kiran Nagarkar and the Tradition of the Indian English Novel.” In The Shifting World of Kiran Nagarkar’s Fiction. Ed. Yasmeen Lukmani. New Delhi: Indialog, 2004: 1-24.
“Afterword.” Ratanbai: A High-Caste Child-Wife by Shevantibai Nikambe. Ed. Chandani Lokuge. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 2004: 64-71.
“Situating the Indian Novel in English (and Other Indian Languages).” IJOWLAC. 1.1 (January-June 2004): 10-15.
“Balle Bollywood: Bombay Dreams and Postcolonial Realities.” Language, Society and Culture. Ed. Udaya Narayana Singh, et al. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages and Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, 2004: 96-105. Another version in English Studies, Indian Perspectives. Ed. Makarand Paranjape. New Delhi: Mantra Books, 2005: 487-503.
“Secularism vs. Hindu Nationalism: Interrogating the Terms of the Debate.” Dialogue. 5.3 (January-March 2004): 14-27. Also in Dharma: The Categorial Imperative. Eds. Ashok Vohra et al. Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 2005: 262-275.
“How (Not) to Read a Classical Indian Text: The First Adhyaya of the Natyasastra.” Critical Theory: Perspectives from Asia. Ed. Naqi Husain Jafri. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2004: 162-179. Also in Sabda: Text and Interpretation in Indian Thought. Eds. Santosh Sareen and Makarand Paranjape. New Delhi: Mantra Books, 2004: 131-144.
“Representing Swami Vivekananda: Some Issues and Debates.” The Cyclonic Swami: Vivekananda in the West. Edited by Sukalyan Sengupta and Makarand Paranjape. New Delhi: Samvad India Foundation in association with Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, 2005: 39-63.
“Afterword.” The Cyclonic Swami: Vivekananda in the West. Edited by Sukalyan Sengupta and Makarand Paranjape. New Delhi: Samvad India Foundation in association with Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, 2005: 203-207.
“Introduction.” The Penguin Swami Vivekananda Reader. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2005: 1-39.
“Dharma and Development: A Personal Introduction.” Dharma and Development: The Future of Survival. Ed. Makarand Paranjape. New Delhi: Samvad India Foundation, 2005: 1-7.
“Spirituality in Development: The Swaminarayan Experience in Gujarat.” Dharma and Development: The Future of Survival. Ed. Makarand Paranjape. New Delhi: Samvad India Foundation, 2005: 107-132.
“Dom: A Critical Appreciation.” South Asian Review. 25.2 (2004): 224-230.
“Swami Vivekananda: Today and Tomorrow.” Focul Point article. Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. 63.7 (July 2005). 327-334. Another version published as “Swami Vivekananda’s Discources: A Study in the Present Context.” Discourse of Resistance in the Colonial Period. Ed. Avadhesh Kumar Singh. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2005: 199-211.
“Introduction.” English Studies, Indian Perspectives. Ed. Makarand Paranjape. New Delhi: Mantra Books, 2005: i-xvii.
“The End of Postcolonialism.” English Studies, Indian Perspectives. Ed. Makarand Paranjape. New Delhi: Mantra Books, 2005: 394-409. Also published in Colonial and Post-Colonial Perspectives: Context, Text, Intertext. Eds. Krishna Sen and Tapati Gupta. Kolkata: Dasgupta and Co, 2007: 72-91.
“Vernacularising the Master Tongue: Indian English and Its Con/texts.” English Studies, Indian Perspectives. Ed. Makarand Paranjape. New Delhi: Mantra Books, 2005: 226-236.
“A Poetry of Proportions: Nissim Ezekiel’s Quest for the Exact Name.” South Asian Review. 26.2 (December 2005): 79-95. Another version in Nissim Ezekiel Remembered. Ed. Havovi Anklesaria, with assistance from Santan Rodrigues. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2008: 413-434.
“Indian Anglophony, Diasporan Polycentricism and Postcolonial Futures.” Peripheral Centres, Central Peripheries: India and its Diaspora(s). Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn and Vera Alexander, eds. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2006: 101-112.
“National Education: Problems and Prospects.” Philosophy and Practice of Education for India: A National Symposium. Ed. Shitangshu Kumar Chakravarti. Kolkata: Sri Aurobindo Samiti, 2006: 98-113.
“Ten Meditations on the Guru.” Gods beyond Temples. Ed. Harsha V. Dehejia. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2006: 215-222.
“Johann Wolfgang Goethe and World Literature.” World Literature: Contemporary Postcolonial and Post-Imperial Literatures. Ed. Nilufer E. Bharucha. New Delhi: Prestige Publishers, 2007: 29-39.
“Foreword.” Australian Studies Now: An Introductory Reader in Australian Studies. Eds. Andrew Hassam with Amit Sarwal. New Delhi: Indialog Publications, 2007: ix-xiii.
“The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Rasa.” Prabuddha Bharata. September 2007: 524-529. Another version published as “The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Rasa: A Note.” Sanskrit Studies. 2 (2006-2007). New Delhi: Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, and D. K. Printworld, 2007: 205-219.
“The Case for Sanskrit as India’s National Language.” Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages. Ed.Sashiprabha Kumar. New Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 2007: 173-200.
“Symposium: We Must Think Beyond Eurocentricism.” With Kim Jae-Yong and Fakhri Saleh. Asia: Magazine of Asian Literature. 2. 4 (Winter 2007): 18-47.
“Representing India: Textuality and Visuality.” The India Habitat Centre’s Art Journal. 7 (April-May 2007): 50-55.
“Small Scale Reflections on an Ancestral Home.” The Indian Family in Tansition: Reading Literary and Cultural Texts. New Delhi: Sage Publications,2007: 331-338.
“Imagining India: Aurobindo, Ambedkar, and After.” South Asian Review. 28.1 (June-July 2007): 159-185. Revised version: “Indian Alternations: Aurobindo, Ambedkar and After.” Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia. Eds. Takashi Shogimen and Cary J. Nederman. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008: 209-234.
“The Sanatani Mahatma: Rereading Gandhi Post-Hindutva.” The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the 21st Century. Ed. Douglas Allen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008: 201-214.
“Rabindranath Tagore” for the section “Modern Intellectuals of Asia.” Asia: Magazine of Asian Literature. 3.4 (Winter 2008): 286-294. (Published with Korean translation).
“Abhyasatishayajnata: She Who is Known (Only) by Strenuous Spiritual Discipline.” Visual Arts: The Indian Habitat Centre’s Art Journal. 8 (April 2007-March 2008): 10-15.
“India’s ‘Truths’: Criticism across Borders for an Alter-Post-Colonialism.” New Challenges in Language and Literature. Ed. Glaucia Renate Goncalves et al. Belo Horizonte: Faculty of Letters, UFMG, 2009: 287-305; revised version Panjab University Research Journal (Arts). 36. 1-2 (April-October 2009): 8-19.

Selected Notes and Reviews

"A Note on Comparative Indian Literature." The Literary Criterion, 21.4: 112 113. Reprinted in The Identity of the Text and Reader Response. Eds. C. D. Narasimhaiah and C. N. Srinath. Mysore: Dhvanyaloka, 1987.
Review of Jayanta Mahapatra: A Critical Assessment edited by Madhusudan Prasad. Journal of Indian Writing in English. 15.1 (January 1987): 41-43.
"The Relevance of Rammohun Roy." Review of Raja Rammohun Roy and the New Learning edited by B P Barua. Weekend Newstime. 3 July 1988: 10.
"The Agony and Ecstasy of Ayn Rand." Review of The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden. Weekend Newstime. 31 July, 1988: 6.
Review of The Adventure of Criticism by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar. Journal of Indian Writing in English. XV:2 (July 1987): 44-45.
"Five from Oxford." Review of Homo Hierarchicus by Louis Dumont, Humanity at Crossroads by Karan Singh and Daisaku Ikeda, The Lord as Guru by Daniel Gold, The Kashmiri Pandits by Henny Sender, and Hyderabad and British Paramountcy by Bharati Ray. Weekend Newstime. 25 September 1988: 6.
Review of Realism and Reality by Meenakshi Mukherjee. Journal of Indian Writing in English. 18.1 (January 1989): 68-71.
Introduction to In Confidence: Dreams and Dialogues. A book of poems by Girdhari Tikku. New Delhi: B R Publishing Corporation, 1989: 5-9.
Review of Jawaharlal Nehru's Letters to Chief Ministers. Weekend Newstime. 1 October, 1989: 5.
"Raj Relic." Review of Miss Beatty's Children by Pamela Rooks. Sunday. 22 28 October, 1989: 84.
"Sati – A Burning Issue." Review of Sati edited by Mulk Raj Anand. Weekend Newstime. 29 October, 1989: 7.
"Salaam Bombay Reconsidered." Weekend Newstime. 5 November, 1989: 7.
"May be, we need more Gandhian values." Review of A Gandhi Reader edited by Swaminathan and Patel. Weekend Newstime. 28 January, 1990: 7.
"The City is the Hero." Review of Delhi by Khushwant Singh. The Times of India Sunday Review. 28 January, 1990: 3.
"Robust and Passionate." Review of The Collected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh. Weekend Newstime. 11 February, 1990: 7.
"Critical Eye on the West." Review of A Turn in the South by V S Naipaul. Weekend Newstime. 4 March, 1990: 7.
"Tradition and the Challenge of Change." Review of Contemporary India edited by Carla Borden. Weekend Newstime. 1 April, 1990: 7.
"Tea and Sympathy." Review of Refuge by Gopal Gandhi. The Times of India Sunday Review. 8 July, 1990: 4.
Review of Modern Indian Poetry in English by Bruce King. Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 89.3 (July 1990): 435-440.
"Journey through Lost Ideals." Review of Alien Heart by Kartar Singh Duggal and We Have Arrived in Amritsar and Other Stories by Bhisham Sahni. The Times of India Sunday Review. 12 August, 1990: 4.
"Rhymes of Slow Agony." Review of Burden of Waves and Fruit and Temple by Jayanta Mahapatra. Times Review of Books. August September, 1990: 62.
"Women Themes: An Exploration of Experience." Review of Slate of Life: An Anthology of Short Stories by Indian Women. The Book Review. 14.6 (Nov Dec 1990): 33-34.
Review of Meatless Days by Sara Suleri. The Sunday Observer. 10 Feb, 1991.
"Lost in the Labyrinth." Review of The City and the River by Arun Joshi. Sunday Review. 24 Feb, 1991.
Review of May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons by Elisabeth Bumiller. The Sunday Observer. 10 March, 1991.
"Playing on Passions." Review of Naga Mandala by Girish Karnad. Indian Express Magazine. 24 March, 1991.
"An `Artist Novel.'" Review of Firdaus Kanga's Trying to Grow. Social Scientist. 19.1 2 (Jan Feb 1991): 111-114.
"It's a hard life for a single woman." Review of Single Woman by Tara Patel. Kaiser E Hind. June 1991: 10-11.
"Philosopher Extraordinary." Review of The Word and the World by Bimal Krishna Matilal. Indian Express Magazine. 4 August 1991.
"Survival in a Hostile World." Review of Nirvana at Ten Rupees by Menka Shivdasani. Kaiser E Hind. August 1991: 10-11.
"Nagaraj: Narayan's Common Man." Review of The World of Nagaraj by R. K. Narayan. The Economic Times. 18 August, 1991.
"A Last Return to an Ancestral Place." Review of India: A Million Mutinies Now by V. S. Naipaul. The Economic Times. 25 August, 1991.
"The Maturing of an Artist." Review of The Sky Changes by Raji Narasimhan. The Economic Times. 22 September, 1991.
"Rediscovering the Essential Gandhi." Review of The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi edited by Raghavan Iyer. The Indian Express Magazine. 13 October, 1991.
"A Mature Poet Dissects the Stuff of Life." Review of Mirrored, Mirroring by Gieve Patel . Kaiser E Hind. September 1991; rpt. as "Inner Dissections." Parsiana. October 1991: 34.
"Love at First Sight." Review of A Crack in the Mirror by Aniruddha Bahal. The Indian Express Magazine. 27 October, 1991.
"Reliving the Past Glory of Hyderabad." Review of Hyderabad: 400 Years by Raza Alikhan. The Economic Times. 27 October, 1991.
"India of the Quaint." Review of Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry. Indian Review of Books. November 1991: 22-23.
"A Secular View." Review of The Analyst and the Mystic by Sudhir Kakar. The Indian Express Magazine. 17 November, 1991.
Review of Zones of Assault by Ranjit Hoskote. Kaiser E Hind. December 1991.
"Hyderabad Exoticised." Review of Nampally Road by Meena Alexander. Indian Review of Books. January 1992: 30-31.
"Liberal Yankee." Review of It Was on Fire when I Lay Down on It by Robert Fulgum. Indian Express Magazine. 19 January, 1992.
"Paternalistic Evaluation." Review of Three Indian Poets by Bruce King. The Journal of the Poetry Society. 2.2 (1991): 58-62.
"What Does He Say to India?" Review of Beastly Tales from Here and There by Vikram Seth. Indian Review of Books. February 1992: 34.
"An Un English Question." Review of Rethinking English edited by Svati Joshi and The Lie of the Land edited by Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan. The Times of India Sunday Review: 7.
"A Tentative Anthology." Review of Sources of Indian Tradition edited by Embree and Hay. Sunday Observer. 22 28 March, 1992: 10.
"Young Poetry." Review of Gemini by Jeet Thayil and Vijay Nambisan. The Times of India Sunday Review. 3 May, 1992.
"Light from the Hilltop." Review article on Teachings of Ramana Maharshi tr. A. R. Natarajan and Be As You Are ed. David Godman. The Book Review. 16.2 (March April 1992): 13-15.
"Revealing an Indian Examination of Textual Meaning." Review of Sahitya: A Theory by Krishna Rayan. The Sunday Observer. 28 June, 1992. Full version, "Another Perspective on Aesthetics." Economic and Political Weekly. 27.23 (6 June, 1992): 1195-1196.
"Fatal Sponge." Review of Whirlpool of Shadows by Vijay Singh. The Times of India Sunday Review. 9 August, 1992.
"The Grass Seems Greener Back Home." Review of Birthday Deathday and Other Stories by Padma Hejmadi and Monkfish Moon by Romesh Gunesekera. The Economic Times. 30 August, 1992.
"Anger and Protest." Review of Poisoned Bread ed. Arjun Dangle. Indian Review of Books. Sept 1992: 27-28.
"Not Stringent Enough." Review of Glimpses ed. by Aruna Sitesh. The Times of India Sunday Review. 20 September, 1992.
"A Gripping Tale." Review of The Hunt for K. by Ramesh Menon. Hindustan Times. 14 November, 1992.
"Another Freedom." Review of And Some Take a Lover by Dina Mehta. Times of India Sunday Review. 22 November, 1992.
"Meticulous But Dry Study of Ecological History." Review of This Fissured Land. by Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha. Economic Times. 13 December, 1992.
"Everyone Seems to Have a Novel Ready for Publication." Survey of Recent Indian English Writing. Economic Times. 27 December, 1992. (Year End Issue.)
"The Second Banishment of Sita." Life and Letters. Review of Sita's Kitchen by Ramachandra Gandhi. Indian Review of Books. 16 January, 1993.
"Waiting to Be at Home." Life and Letters. Review of Never at Home by Dom Moraes. Indian Review of Books. 16 February, 1993.
"Absent Alternatives." Review of Absent Authority by John Oliver Perry. Indian Literature. 153. Jan Feb 1993: 182-190.
"Bone Numbers." Review of The Hyoid Bone by Rukmini Bhaya Nair. The Times of India Sunday Review. 7 March, 1993.
"A Jane Austin Novel in 1400 pages..." Review of A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. Economic Times. 7 March, 1993.
"Opacity and Elusiveness." Review of A Whiteness of Bone by Jayanta Mahapatra. Economic Times. 21 March, 1993.
Review of A Reporter's Diary by Tabish Khair. The Statesman. 22 May, 1993.
"Images of loneliness." Review of Configurations by Rachna Joshi. Business Standard, 9 July, 1993: 12.
"Finding their voice," review of In Their Own Voice: Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women edited by Arlene Zide. The Hindu, 2 January, 1994.
"Deconstructing Englishry," review of The New Poetry. Indian Review of Books, 15 February 16 March, 1994: 33.
"A Play of Epic Proportion," review of Dara Shukoh by Gopal Gandhi. Indian Review of Books, 16 April –15 May, 1994: 33.
"Myriad Faces of Violence," review of Yatra 2 edited by Alok Bhalla. Indian Review of Books, 16 May 15 June, 1994: 18-19.
"Delhi Darshan," review of Delhi: Its Monuments and History by T. G. Percival Spear. The Hindu, 7 August, 1994.
"Fo(r)stering Anglo Indian Fiction," review of Forster and Further: The Tradition of Anglo Indian Fiction by Sujit Mukherjee. New Quest 107 (September October 1994) 307-309.
"Filling a Gap," review of South Asian Love Poetry edited by S. K. Sareen and Kapil Kapoor. The Hindu, 2 October, 1994.
Review of The Penguin New Writing in Sri Lanka edited by DCRA Goonetilleke. World Literature Today (Winter 1994).
"Good, But Not the Best," review of The Penguin New Writing in India edited by Aditya Behl. Indian Review of Books, 15 Dec 1994 15 Jan 1995: 39.
"Documenting Life," review of Season of Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam. Indian Review of Books, 16 Jan 15 Feb 1995: 36-37.
"Effective Translation," review of Katha Prize Stories 4 edited by Geeta Dharmarajan. Indian Review of Books, 16 April 15 May 1995: 30.
"Trans Lingual Representation," review of The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry edited by Vinay Dharwadkar and A. K. Ramanujan. The Book Review 19.4 (April 1995): 26.
"Subtle Feminism," review of After the Rain by Kumkum Yadav. Business Standard, 28 April 1995: 12.
"Righting wrongs," review of The Flaming Feet by D. R. Nagaraj. Business Standard, 2 June 1995: 12.
"Time tested verse," review of Nomads and Other Moments by Anil Saari. Business Standard, 16 June 1995:. 12.
"The world in gay colours," review of One Day I Locked My Flat in Soul City by R. Raj Rao. The Pioneer, 5 August 1995.
"Valuable work," review of Critical Events by Veena Das. Pioneer, 16 September 1995: 10.
"Honest Work; Unitive Approach," review of Dramatic Concepts, Greek and Indian by Gharat Gupt. New Quest 113 (September October 1995): 318 320.
"A town's life," review of Tale of a Tamarind Tree by S. Ramaswamy. Pioneer, 21 October 1995: 10.
"Dalit (Di)visions?" review of Dalit Visions: The Anti caste Movement and the Construction of an Indian Identity by Gail Omvedt. Indian Review of Books, 16 Nov 15 Dec 1995: 12 13.
"A Compelling Document" (cover story) review of The Good Boatman by Rajmohan Gandhi. Indian Review of Books 16 Dec 1995 15 Jan 1996: 2 3.
"The anatomy of communalism," review of Creating a Nationality by Ashis Nandy et al. Pioneer, 16 December 1995: 10.
"The boss," review of Mridula Sarabhai by Aparna Basu. Pioneer, 3 February 1996: 10.
"A mature dissertation," review of Mulk Raj Anand: A Revaluation by P. K. "Rajan. The Hindu, 4 February 1996.
"Labour of love," review of Classic Telugu Short Stories ed. and trans. Ranga Rao. Pioneer, 10 February 1996: 13.
"Masti's world," review of Short Stories: Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, trans. Ramachandra Sharma. Pioneer, 24 February 1996: 13; longer version published in Biblio 2.3 (April 1996): 23.
"Another warped NRI novel," review of A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Pioneer, 9 March 1996: 13.
"All definition, no solution," review of Crossroads of Culture by Pulin K. Garg and Indira J. Parikh. Indian Review of Books, 16 March 15 April 1996: 9.
Review of On an Eternal Voyage by Vimala Thakar. The Mountain Path, June 1996: 97.
"Politics of Reading," review of Oppositional Aesthetics: Readings from a Hyphenated Space by Arun Mukherjee. IACLALS Newsletter, July 1996: 4 5.
Review of Punjabi Baroque and Other Memories of Architecture by Gautam Bhatia. Seminar 445 (September 1996): 78.
Review of Inner and Outer Peace through Meditation by Rajinder Singh. Life Positive 1.7 (October 1996): 51.
"No Search for the Better Half," review of Tatva by Sagari Chhabra. Humanscape, November 1996: 29-30.
"In Search of Truth," review of The Meaning of India by Raja Rao. Indian Review of Books, cover story, 6.2 (16 November – 15 December 1996): 8 10.
Review of The Ultimate Medicine edited by Robert Powell. The Mountain Path, December 1996: 211 212.
"Muted Whispers," review of Subaltern Studies IX edited by Shahid Amin and Dipesh Chakrabarty. Indian Review of Books, 16 Jan 15 February 1997: 11 13.
"When humour becomes gloomy," review of Malarial Dreams and Other Visions of Architecture by Gautam Bhatia. Lead review, The Pioneer, 8 February 1997.
"The Sage of Arunachala," review of Centenary Souvenir Commemorating the Advent of Bhagavan Sri Ramana at Arunachala. Life Positive, March 1997: 63.
Review of Infinite Happiness by Masami Saionji. Life Positive, January 1997: 55.
"Eloquent Sorrow," review of The Infinity of Grace by O.V. Vijayan. Outlook, 29 January 1997: 81.
Review of Gandhi and the Present Global Crisis edited by Ramashray Roy. Summerhill 3.1 (February 1977): 11.
"Immemorably Yours," review of Dropping Names by Manohar Malgonkar. Indian Review of Books, 16 Feb 1997 15 March 1997: 22-23.
"Historical value," review of Rajmohan's Wife by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. The Pioneer, 22 March 1997.
Review of Sri Aurobindo: The Hour of God edited by Manoj Das. Life Positive, April 1997: 93.
"A secular and mundane vision," review of Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar. Lead review, The Pioneer, 5 April 1997.
"Motifs of exchange and reversal," review of Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra. The Pioneer, 19 April 1997.
"Evocative and powerful," review of The Red Tin Roof by Nirmal Verma. The Pioneer, 31 May 1997.
"Jataka, but jet lagged," review of The Monkey King and Other Stories edited by Griffin Ondaatje. Life Positive, June 1997: 46.
"Snapshots: The first Indian Jewish Novel," review of The Walled City by Esther David. Outlook, 25 June 1997: 89.
"Engaging and memorable debut," review of In the Light of the Dark Sun by Rohit Manchanda. The Pioneer, 3 August 1997.
"Militant Messiah" review of The Essential Writings of Subhas Chandra Bose edited by Sisir K. Bose and Sugata Bose. The Indian Review of Books, 16 Aug 15 Sept 1997: 13-15.
"A troubled legacy," review of Worshipping False Gods by Arun Shourie. The Hindu literary review, 7 September 1997.
Review of Hind Swaraj and Other Writings of M. K. Gandhi ed. Anthony J. Parel. Gandhi Marg, July Sept 1997: 239 243; also published in Biblio 2.11 (November 1997): 5-6.
"A Quiver Full of Causes," review of collections of poems by Gautam Chikermane, Jagannath Prasad Das, and Seeme Qasim. Outlook, 9 February 1998: 120.
"Spiritual Story." Review of Parallel Journeys by Anu Majumdar. India Today, 16 February 1998: 77.
Review of Beyond Man by Georges van Vrekhem. Biblio. March April 1998: 32-33.
Review of Of Many Heroes by Ganesh N. Devy. Indian Review of Books, 16 April - 15 May 1998: 22-24.
Review of The Heart of Compassion, Secular Meditation, Healing Anger, and The Path to Enlightenment all by the Dalai Lama. Life Positive, May 1998: 54-55.
"Unwieldy Tree." Review of Knit India through Literature edited by Sivasankari. Outlook, 11 May 1998.
Review of Journeys by Shuja Nawaz. World Literature Today. Summer 1998.
"Aura of Erudition." Review of The Essential Writings of Sri Aurobindo edited by Peter Hees. Indian Review of Books. 16 August - 15 September 1998: 24-26.
Review of Twentieth Century Imperialism by Rajen Harshe. Seminar 469 (September 1998) 43-44.
Review of Nine Indian Women Poets edited by Eunice de Souza. World Literature Today. Autumn 1998.
"Schools of Thought." Review of Knowledge Power and Politics: Educational Institutions in India edited by Mushirul Hasan. Indian Review of Books. 16 January-15 February 1999: 8-9.
"Just Not Good Enough." Review of The Dogs of Justice by Nina Sibal. Indian Review of Books. 16 February- 15 March 1999: 44-45.
"A Suitable Author." On An Equal Music by Vikram Seth. The Week. 9 May 1999: 32-33.
Review of Gandhi: Struggling for Autonomy by Ronald J. Terchek. Gandhi Marg 21.1 (April-June 1999): 117-120.
"Epochal Figure." Review of The Essential Writings of Raja Rammohun Roy edited by Bruce Carlisle Robertson. Indian Review of Books 16 June - 15 July 1999: 9.
“A Social Revolution.” Review of Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium: From Iyothee Thass to Periyar by V. Geetha and S.V. Rajadurai. Indian Review of Books 16 Aug to 15 Sept 1999: 6-7.
“One night stand.” Review of The Company of Women by Khushwant Singh. The Express Magazine. 19 September 1999.
“Take that, Mr. Rushdie.” Review of The Stallion of the Sun and Other Stories by U. R. Anantha Murthy. The Express Magazine.
“Rest in Peace: Remembering Nirad C. Chaudhuri.” Indian Review of Books. 8th Anniversary Issue. 9.1 (16 Oct 1999): 87-91.
“Poor Repast.” Review of Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai. Indian Review of Books. 9.1 (16 October 1999): 93-94.
“All Said and Done…” Review of Out of Place by Edward Said. Indian Review of Books. 9.5 (16 Feb 2000): 4-5.
“Minor Masterpiece.” Review of The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra. Indian Review of Books. 9.6 (16 March – 15 April 2000): 7-8.
Review of Modernity, Morality and Gandhi by Madhuri Santanam Sondhi. International Studies 37. 2(2000): 153-155.
Review of Beyond Secularism: The Rights of Religious Minorities by Neera Chandhoke. Gandhi Marg April-June 2000: 109-112.
“Looking Back.” Review of Amriika by M.J. Vassanji. Indian Review of Books. 9. 11 (ug-Sept 2000): 39-40.
“Glimpses of Nehruvian History.” Review of Before Freedom: Nehru’s Letters to His Sister ed. Nayantara Sahgal. The Express Magazine, September 10, 2000: 3.
“Acrobatics in Translation.” Review of Against All Odds by Kishore Shantabai Kale. Indian Review of Books 9.12 (Sept.-Oct 2000): 21-22.
Review of Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History by Elise Boulding. Gandhi Marg. 22.4 (Jan-March 2001): 496-498.
“The Grass Isn’t Always Green.” Review of My Broken Love: Gunter Grass in India and Bangladesh ed. Martin Kampchen. India Today, March 19, 2001: 55.
“This is a Women’s World.” Review of My Friend, My Enemy by Ismat Chughtai trans. Tahira Naqvi. India Today. April 16, 2001: 70.
Review of Babu Fictions by Tabish Khair and The Perishable Empire by Meenakshi Mukherjee. Gentleman magazine, April 2001.
Obituary on R. K. Narayan. Indian Express, 14 May, 2001.
“French Connection.” Review of French Lover by Taslima Nasreen. India Today. March 18, 2002: 80.
“Canon Capers.” Review of An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002). India Today. September 30, 2002. 74.
“Colonial Castaways.” Review of Lying on the Postcolonial Couch by Rukmini Bhaya Nair (New Delhi: Oxford UP, 2002). India Today. October 23, 2002. 60.
“Home is Not Elsewhere.” Review of Book of Esther by Esther David (New Delhi: Viking, 2002). India Today. November 18, 2002: 64.
Mahasaraswati by Prema Nandakumar. The Call Beyond. 28.4 (2003): 29.
“Gandhi’s Woman.” Review of Mira and the Mahatma by Sudhir Kakar. India Today October 18, 2004: 61.
Review of Gentlemen Poets in Colonial Bengal by Rosinka Chaudhuri. Interventions 6.3 (2004): 468-474.
Review of Violence/Nonviolence: Some Hindu Perspectives edited by Denis Vidal et al. Gandhi Marg. October-December 2004: 365-368.
Review of Muniya’s Light by Ramachandra Gandhi. India Today. 1 April 2005.
“The Pathology Of Faith.” Review of Kiran Nagarkar’s God’s Little Soldier. New Delhi: HarperCollins India, 2006. India Today. April 17, 2006.
“The Master Of Silence.” Obituary on Raja Rao. India Today. July 24, 2006.
“The salutary middle course.” Review of Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader ed. Sachidananda Mohanty. In-between. 15.2 (September 2006): 163-165.
“Misplaced Empathy.” Review of Kipling Saheb by Allen Lane. The Week. January 13, 2008. 67-68.
“A Tribute to Kamla Chowdhry.” In Service to Humanity Kamla Chowdhry: A Loving Tribute to Her Life and Spirit. New York: Ruder Finn, 2008: 7-13.
“Truth is Ruthless.” Review of The World is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. India Today. May 12, 2008: 70-71.
“Beatnik plot.” Review of A Blue Hand by Deborah Baker. The Week. August 24, 2008: 66-67.
“Modern Indian Intellectuals: Rabindranath Tagore.” Asia: Magazine of Asian Literature. 3.4 (Winter 2008): 280-282.
Review of The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary by Vijay C. Mishra. Ariel. 40.1 (January 2009): 181-186.

Poems

"Used Book." The Clearing House (USA). 56.2 (October 1982): 67.
"A Ruined Walk" and "Confluence." Chandrabhaga. 13 (Summer 1985): 65-68.
"A Version of Snow." Indian Literature. 114 (July Aug 1986): 60-61.
"The Call." New Quest. 60 (Nov Dec 1986): 372.
"Food for Thought." The Telegraph Colour Magazine. 11 January 1987.
"Portrait of a Lady." The Indian P.E.N. April June 1987: 6.
"Avadhuta." Triveni. 56.2 (July September 1987): 19.
"Roach Trap." Kavya Bharati. 1 (1988): 72-73.
"Mother India." Kaiser e Hind. August 1988: 12.
"My Buried Youth in Umbergaon." Tenor. March 1989: 1 3.
"Rain." (A long poem in twenty two sections.) Kavya Bharati. 2 (1989): 70-82. Section XX was published separately in Poetry Canada Review.
"How the Story Ended," "Hauz-i-Khas," and "Yudhishtir" (the last two first appeared in Afro Asian Perspectives. Delhi London Poetry Quarterly. 1989: 16-20.
"Srirangapatnam." Poetry Chronicle. 1.3 (July August 1989): 69-74.
"Miss Gobble" and "Walls." Debonair. February 1990: 60.
"Getting Outside Patriarchy" and "The Second Time is the Best." Poetry Chronicle. 2.2 (March April, 1990): 29-32.
"Treadmill." The Indian P.E.N. 51.4 6 (April June 1990): 11.
"Mother's Wisdom." Kaiser E Hind. July 1990: 12.
"She and He." In Kavi Bharati 2. October 1990.
"Abortion" and "Returning Home." Femina. 23 October 7 November, 1990: 82.
"Holi." The Bombay Literary Review. 1990.2: 132-133.
"Sadly." Kaiser E Hind. April 1991: 12.
"Love Poetry." The Book Review 14.6 (Nov Dec 1991): 19.
"Rendezvous in Bhopal." The Journal of the Poetry Society. 2.1 (1991): 37-47.
"Duryodhana's Last Words." Kavya Bharati 4. (1992): 31.
"Musical Chairs," "Silk Tassels," "Fording a River," "Heroine," and "Hymn to Her." Indian Literature 154 (March April 1992): 26-31.
"Your Fallen Profession" and "Mother's Wisdom." World Literature Today. Special Issue on Indian Literatures: In the Fifth Decade of Independence. 68.2 (Spring 1994) 290.
"Three Women." Poiesis. 3.2 3 (Monsoon Winter 1994) 5-7.
"Umbrellas," BEAM, July 1995: 2-3.
"The Awaited Letter," "The Night by Moonlight" and "Monsoon." Journal of the Poetry Society. 6.1 (Summer 1995): 55-59.
"I Know I Cannot Be Responsible for All This" and "Mehdipatnam Musings." Scoria, July September 1996: 10-12.
"Love Perfected" and "Love Exceeds its Objects" in The Journal of the Poetry Society (India). 8.2 (Winter 1997): 57.
"Running by the River" and "Metropolis" in Scoria, April 1998: 35-36.
"The Secret Life," in Life Positive, May 1998: 22-23.
"Five Songs to Arunachala" and "Bridal Song for Sri Arunachala." Indian Literature 186 (July August 1998): 58-60.
"The Religion of Love," "Falling in Love," "Objects of Desire," "Creature Comforts," "Practical/Impractical," "Touch," "Love and Its Objects," "Grace Descending, Grace Withdrawing," "Love's Dessert," "Love Perfected," and "Epilogue: Heart Throbs." Kavya Bharati: Tenth Anniversary Issue. 10 (1998): 39-49.
"Good Friday, Yugoslavia, 1999." Butterfly Futures June 1999: 3.
“The Religion of Love” and “Random Notes on Relationships.” The Journal of the Poetry Society. 10.1 (Summer 1999): 35-37.
“Flying.” The Poetry Chain. April-June 2000: 13.
“Hill Station – A Romance” and “The Original.” The Journal of the Poetry Society (India) 12.1 (Summer 2000): 45-46.
“Food for Thought.” The Journal of the Poetry Society (India). 11.2 (Winter 2002): 41.
“Archer” and “Flying” in A New Book of Indian Poems in English. Ed. Gopi Krishnan Kottoor. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 2000. 158-159.
“House of Mirrors,” “Hidden Persuader,” “Parting Rain,” “The Night by Moonlight,” “Silk Tassels,” “`Research Material,’” “Seeking Sue,” and “Free Fall.” Interactions. 1.1 (Jan 2004): 6-14.
“Parting Rain,” “Her to Him,” and “The Rarest Flower.” Litscape. 1.1 (Feb 2004): 34-36.
“Il Miglior Fabbro?” and “Remote Control” in Poetry International. Special Double Issue Featuring English Language Poetry from Around the World. 7/8 (2003-2004): 131-132.
“Body in Pain,” “The Speaking Tree,” “Presences,” “Lemons…and Poems,” “The Unfinished” in South Asian Review. 25.3 (2004): 54-56.
“Lemons…and Poems” and “Homecoming.” Families. 3.2 & 4; 4.1 (2005): 143-144.
“Twenty-four Hours.” The Literary Review. “Unmapped: the Indian Poetry Issue.” 52. 3 (Spring 2009): 73-78.

Short Stories

Other Publications

"The Ethical Pursuit of Wealth." (Op. ed. essay.) Newstime. 23 October 1986: 7.
"The Raj Syndrome: An English Epidemic." (Essay) Weekend Newstime. 22 November 1987: 11.
"My American Guru." Span Magazine. May 1988.
"A Hyderabadi Auto Driver." Kaiser e Hind. July 1988: 10 11.
"Kuchipudi: The Dance of the Gods." (Essay) Weekend Newstime, 4 September 1988: 6.
"Confessions of an Anti social Male." Kaiser e Hind. November 1988: 9-10.
"The Importance of Being a Middle Class Person." PS: The Sunday Magazine of The Indian Post. 22 June 1989.
"Grab, Get Ahead, Survive." Kaiser e Hind. August 1989: 2-3.
"The Sunken Buddha." Newstime. 30 March, 1990: 7.
"Ramazan." Newstime. 15 April, 1990: 7.
"Ramazan II." Newstime. 23 April, 1990: 7.
"The Man With the Beautiful Name." The Times of India. 1 June, 1990: 12.
"Successful Conclusions." The Times of India. 12 July, 1990.
"Vishwamitra: Myth and Masala." Indian Express Magazine. 12 May, 1991: 3.
"Another Pebble in the Rushdie Pool." The Sunday Observer. July 21 27, 1991.
"I Can Live Without a Man." Divorce Saga. Femina. 23 Sept 7 Oct 1991: 46 47.
"Hello! An Indian Speaking." "P's and Q's." The Business Standard. 12 October, 1991.
"English Syllabus Must Be Reformed." Op. Ed. The Times of India. 1 February, 1992.
"Here Are the Main Points." "P's and Q's." The Business Standard. 1 February, 1992.
"On Being an Indian English Poet." Hindustan Times. 8 February, 1992.
"Rebutting a `Silly view.'" New Quest. Nov December 1991: 381-383.
"English through Cable." "P's and Q's." The Business Standard. 14 March, 1992.
"A Restaurant Called Rambo." "P's and Q's." The Business Standard. 13 June, 1992.
Interview with Jayanta Mahapatra. Tenor. 8 (1992): 13-23.
"Women are Still Just Sex Symbols." Debate. Femina. 23 June, 1992: 37-38.
"Indian English Literature: A Break with Tradition." The Hindu Literary Supplement. 2 August, 1992.
"Bring Libraries to Book." The Sunday Times of India. 16 August, 1992.
"The Romance of Bookshops." The Statesman. 26 September, 1992.
"Obsession with English." The Business Standard. 3 October, 1992.
"The New Woman is a Selfish Woman." Male Order. Femina. 8 October, 1992.
"A Good Time to be a Writer." Indian Review of Books. October 1992: 20-24.
"Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?" Male Order. Femina. 23 December, 1992.
"Who Says Men Don't Feel Guilty?" Femina. 23 December, 1992.
"Money is Not the Only Means to Marital Happiness." Male Order. Femina. 8 January, 1993.
"Tapping the Individual's Talent." Interview with U. R. Anantha Murthy. The Hindu. 4 April, 1993. Indian Review of Books April, 1993.
"An Ambitious Publishing Drive." Life and Letters. Indian Review of Books. April 1993.
"Bhalchandra Nemade." Literati. The India Magazine. May 1993.
"A Vision of Birds." Span. June 1994 6-8.
"Ashok Vajpeyi: Ek Abhinandan (Hindi). Sakshatkar: Ashok Vajpeyi Special Issue 181 183 (Jan March 1995): 203-205.
"The Sai Baba of Shirdi." Elite 2.3 (Aug Sept 1995): 57-60.
"Hill of Fire." Elite 2.5 (Oct Nov 1995): 73-76.
"The Masculine Gaze of a powerful poet," interview with Keki N. Daruwalla. The Asian Age, January 1995.
"TV not the only companion," Counterpoint. Industry Observer 1 March 1996.
"Is life all beer and skittles?" Counterpoint. Industry Observer, 8 March 1996.
"Creating Meaningful Knowledge in Contemporary India," Sunday Herald 17 March 1996: 2-4.
"Ugly side of beauty business," Counterpoint. Industry Observer, 29 March 1996.
"From time to timelessness," Perspective. Industry Observer, 5 April 1996.
"Pedal pleasures," Perspective. Industry Observer, 12 April 1996.
"Writers in the language of Raj." Essay, The Pioneer special anniversary issue, 11 August 1996.
"Alms and the man." Life Positive magazine, 1.8 (November 1996): 6.
"The year of expatriates," year end survey of Indian English writing. The Pioneer, 28 December 1996.
"Art of the Matter," interview with Raja Rao. Indian Review of Books 6.2 (16 November 15 December 1996): 6-8.
"The Foundations of Indian Culture: A Commentary I." The Eye, 4. 1&2: 19-22.
"The Splendour of India." Life Positive, February 1997: 5.
"The Foundations of Indian Culture A Commentary II," The Eye, 4. 3 (March 1997): 106-110.
"Humanity evolves, not the individual," interview with Radha Burnier, President of the Theosophical Society. Life Positive, March 1997: 14-18.
"Our Future: What Does it Portend?" The Awakening Ray, March April 1997: 5-8.
"Sarojini and the men of her time," Deccan Chronicle, 60th year special issue, 15 May 1997: 21 and 27.
"Bhagavan Kalki: God Incarnate or Mere Godman?" Cover Story, Life Positive, July 1997: 34-43.
"The Foundations of Indian Culture: A Commentary III." The Eye, 4.4 (July Sept 1997): 105 109. Also in The Call Beyond 23.1 (1998): 32 33.
"The Spirit of the Nation." 50 anniversary tribute to India and cover story, Life Positive, August 1997: 36-45.
"India: At the Crossroads." Humanscape, August 1997: 15-17.
"Journey to Sai Baba." Life Positive, October 1997: 36-37.
"Whither Humanism?" Humanscape, December 1997: 22-23.
"Sri Aurobindo's siddhi day." The Times of India, 24 November 1997: 13.
"Keep the faith, but don't fall asleep." The Times of India, 10 January 1998.
"The Ethos of Personal Ethics." Humanscape. January 1998: 6 7.
"The Dharma of Technology." Cover story. Life Positive. February 1998.
Interview: "K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar in Conversation with Makarand Paranjape." Indian Literature 183 (Jan Feb 1998): 166 177.
"Foundations of Indian Culture – A Commentary on Part 2, Section 1." The Eye, 5.1 (October December 1997) 124 128; also published in The Call Beyond 23.2 (1998): 15 18.
“Passionate Pilgrim.” Tribute to Octavio Paz. Life Positive. June 1998.
"Yashpal Satya – In Memoriam." Parivar Manav. May August 1998: 83 91.
"Beyond Man." The inaugural article in Sunday Hindustan Times futures page, 13 December 1998.
"What makes Svadhyaya Work?" Article on the Svadhyaya movement, with a boxed note on "What NGOs can learn from Svadhyaya." Humanscape. March 1999: 18-23.
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“The Secret of Healthy Relationships.” Life Positive. December 2001.
“Two kings of Islam.” On Sufism. Life Positive. February 2002.
“Non-violence as Strength.” Humanscape. 11.1 (January 2004): 20-21.
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