Writings
Minority Life, Staying, and Ethical Worlds
Writing on minority life, staying, and the practices that sustain it.
Slow Migration: Financial Uncertainty and the Ethics of Minority Staying
How movement unfolds through financial strain and ethical obligation
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Learning Under Siege: Education as Everyday Repair and Minority Futures
Schooling as repair, discipline, and constrained aspiration under conflict
Forthcoming
The Labour of Staying
Staying as ethical labour shaped by land, memory, and obligation
Forthcoming
The Quiet Pluralism of Kashmir’s Sikhs
On everyday coexistence that sustains social life beyond dominant narratives
→ Read (The India Forum)
Institutions: Education, Policy, Platforms
Writing on how institutions shape, constrain, and reorganize social life.
How the NEP is Reshaping Autonomy for Minority Institutions
How metrics, standardization, and regulation redefine autonomy
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When Universities Become Sites of Discipline
How dissent shifts from debate to administrative control
→ Read (The Wire)
Diagnostic Dispossession: Minority Mental Health and AI in Kashmir
How clinical and algorithmic systems render minority distress illegible
Forthcoming (Co-authored with Dr Indupriya B)
Public Writing
Writing on contemporary shifts in work, education, and public life.
The ‘Work Family’ Was Always Fragile. Gen Z Refuses to Pretend Otherwise.
How structural shifts, not attitude, shape changing relations to work
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When War Reshapes the Geography of Indian Education
How geopolitical instability exposes dependence on overseas education
→ Read here
The Battle That Ensured Kashmir Was a Part of India
On war, contingency, and the historical moment that shaped Kashmir’s political fate
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Those Who Stayed: The Sikhs of Kashmir (Excerpt)
On memory, violence, and the making of a minority archive
→ Read (Outlook)
How Sikhs Bridged a Communal Gap After Pahalgam
On everyday courage and the repair of fractured social trust after violence
→ Read (Outlook)
Pahalgam, Sikhs, and an Act of Valour
On protection, risk, and the ethics of standing for others in moments of crisis
→ Read (Outlook)
Current Work
Ongoing research and writing projects.
Vand Chakna and the Ethics of Shared Life
On equality sustained through everyday practices of sharing
→ Read (Preprint.org)
Platform Architecture and the Persistence of Rape Myths
On how digital systems amplify harm and suppress counter-discourse
Forthcoming (Co-authored with Dr Indupriya B)
Who Gets to Count as a Minority in Kashmir?
On how narrative frameworks shape visibility and absence
Forthcoming
Raped: The History, Politics, and Psychology of Rape in Independent India
A forthcoming book examining the historical, political, and psychological dimensions of sexual violence
Literary Work
Selected works Poetry, fiction, and selected essays.
Essays
Escape from Kashmir
On leaving, return, and the uneasy temporality of migration
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Descriptive Writing and Mindfulness
On craft of writing descriptive, and mindfulness
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Blood and Honor: Partition
On violence, masculinity, and the enduring logic of Partition
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Understanding Government Education System: Problems and Solutions
On structural limits and lived realities within public education
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Poetry
Flying to Byzantine
On decay, transcendence, and the search for permanence
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Dissent
On resistance, voice, and the limits placed on speech
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Ghosts of Freedom
On memory, loss, and the unfinished work of liberation
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For Masrat et al.
On incarceration, silence, and the persistence of witness
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It Will Pass
On waiting, endurance, and the quiet temporality of crisis
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Fiction
Breadcrumbs
On memory, fragmentation, and the traces we leave behind
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Sin Eater
On guilt, inheritance, and the burden of absorbing others’ sins
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Whitman’s Grandson
On lineage, identity, and the search for belonging
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Saffron
On memory, violence, and the lingering afterlife of Partition in Kashmir
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