Recent writings
My Time/Charter columns are available here
Some favorites:
America Values Asian Work More Than Asian Lives
RIP, Jeff Zucker’s Masterful Morning Show
Why an Abundance Mindset is a Disruptive Business Strategy
The Disruptive Business Lesson in Never Have I Ever
The Worst Year of Your Life is When You Become a Manager
How immigrants really get the job done during COVID, Fortune
Bosses are expressing gratitude all wrong, Fortune
Now is the perfect time to make a drastic career change, Fortune
5 ways the post-pandemic office will look different, Fortune
A quarantine diary from my sandwich generation, CNN
A Q/A with one of the few white actors in Hamilton, CNN
On diversity, fix yourself before you try to fix your newsroom, Nieman Lab
An ode to Sima Auntie from “Indian Matchmaking”, CNN
Some Asian stereotypes, debunked in Never Have I Ever , CNN
Why Indian CEOs keep coming to the rescue
The silent majority of America are moderate
The Manet painting that predicted Instagram, L.A. Review of Books
The fiction that got me through 2017, CNN
The suburbs aren’t the internet, CNN
The arc of news and audience, Nieman Lab
Why do you hate me? I talked to a white nationalist, CNN
The first South Asian youth novel, Born Confused, 15 years later, LitHub
Speeches
Acceptance speech for Spirit of Asian America Award, 2018
Keynote speech at American Society of News Editors: Digital, Disrupt, Diversity
Keynote speech at JAWS (Journalism and Women’s Symposium) in Whitefish, Montana
Acceptance speech for WWPHS Hall of Fame Award, 2018
Columns for Quartz
How Narendra Modi won over a family of staunch Congress supporters–mine
How the Indian Dream died with the Delhi gang rape victim
Infosys helped make the world flat–with the exception of its management structure
India’s biggest muckraker deserves the scrutiny he introduced to the country
Economics writing
The democratization of credit is over–now it’s payback time
Housing’s job engine falters: The sorry tale of America’s exurbs
Where the (fight over) sidewalk ends
The housing slump has Salem on a witch hunt again
Travel writing
How to take children on an African safari
Bridge over a troubled valley: Kashmir
Frolicking with dolphins: Assam
My thoughts on journalism/press
How to commit authentic journalism (talk in Amsterdam)
The most memorable stories of 2014: Poynter
Storytelling experiment: Quartz publishes our private chats
What I wish I had told Dori Maynard in our last conversation: Poynter