Media 

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Featured in New York Times 360 video "When Your Commute Includes Hearing ‘You Don’t Belong in This Country'"

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Featured on “This Movie Changed Me” podcast via On Being Studios

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Nonfiction

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"The 10 Best Shirts I Saw at the Indianapolis 500" In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction

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"Caves" New Indiana Voices anthology (Indiana University Press)

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"Reading Censorship: An Essay Inspired by Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris" Essay Daily

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"Gentlemen, Start Your Engines" The Rumpus *featured in Memoir Monday newsletter

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"The Crossroads of America" Essay Daily #Midwessay series

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"An Indian in Yoga Class: Finding Imbalance" Best of Brevity anthology 

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"An Indian in Yoga Class: Finding Imbalance" Brevity

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“Meghan Markle’s Trooping the Colour Appearance on the Buckingham Palace Balcony Matters” Teen Vogue

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“Race at the Race: Being Indian-American at the Indianapolis 500” Lit Hub 

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“A Guy on the Subway Told Me I Didn't Belong in This Country and I Told the Whole World About It” Cosmopolitan 

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“Bend It Like Beckham and the Art of Balancing Cultures” The Atlantic *retweeted by director

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“How Miss Cleo taught me to turn racial stereotypes inside out” The Washington Post 

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"Someday Never Comes" Good Girls Marry Doctors: An Anthology of South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion (Aunt Lute Books) 

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“Frank Vega: It's What's on the Outside That Counts” Your Impossible Voice 

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"Three Continents, Three Generations" The Normal School

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"Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself & Vacuum Cleaner Salesman" Apogee 

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"Reign" TAYO (print) 

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"Looking Ahead." Indianapolis Woman Magazine (print) 

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“Choosing a Path” Indianapolis Woman Magazine (print) 

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"Kid, Meet Green" Indianapolis Woman Magazine (print) 

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Critical Writing

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"Some Other I Before Me: On Seeking Guidance From AAPI Memoirs" Los Angeles Review of Books *featured in Lit Hub’s Best of the Literary Internet roundup

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"Like Constance Wu, These Three Memoirists Want More" The New York Times

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"Sindya Bhanoo's Seeking Fortune Elsewhere" Harvard Review

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"Searching for ways to understand and survive 'Girlhood'" The Boston Globe

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"Sejal Shah's This is One Way to Dance" Harvard Review 

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“I’m So Jealous You Get To Read 'Anita and Me' by Meera Syal For the First Time” Bustle

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"Timothy Denevi's Freak Kingdom" The Rupture 

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"Reading list: 23 female TED speakers tell us about the books that shaped them" TED Ideas Blog

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Craft Writing

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"Supporting the Nonfiction Community by Teaching Book Reviews" Hippocampus Magazine 

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Fictional Humor Writing

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"A Day in the Life of a Finance Bro" Little Old Lady

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"How to Compliment a Finance Bro so You Can Secure Half and Leave in Three Years" Points in Case

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Media Writing

"The bold and brilliant conference shorts from TEDWomen 2019" TED Blog