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Publications

Books & Anthologies

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Poetry

Diagnosis

Only Poems, Poem of the Month - September 2025

Compassion Fatigue

Paranoid Tree, Vol. 52 - 2025

(Nominated for a Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net)

Two Poems

The Hooghly Review, Issue 3 - April 2024

Bilkis and Other Poems

The Bombay Literary Magazine, Issue 56

Corrigendum

The World That Belongs To Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia

A Feeble No

The Rumpus: Enough, Women and Non-Binary Writers Respond to #MeToo

Fiction

The Girl Who Haunted Death

The Deadlands, June 2022

Excerpt: The Girl Who Haunted Death from Magical Women

Scroll.in, Apr 2020

Yokozuna - Short Story

The Curious Reader, Aug 2019

Love In The Time Of Instagram - Short Story

Grazia India, Feb 2019

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Non-Fiction

Book Vs. TV Show: Looking For Alaska

The Curious Reader

Gul, As Mehfil And Fantasy: Stage Adaptation Of Courtesans' Story Transports Audience To Lucknow Of Yore

Firstpost

Delhi Woman Asks Men To Rape Women In Short Dresses. Next? The Internet Took Over

SheThePeople

Learning To Say The Word "Depression" Saved My Life

Buzzfeed

Interview with Sharanya Manivannan

Scroll.in

I Was Born A Millennial - And I'm Anything But A Stereotype

Indiatimes

Why You Need To Stop Hating Popular Genre Fiction

Daily O

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