I write for popular sites and magazines. I write for academic journals. I also write and edit reports for international organizations. Some links to recent work are below.

PHD THESIS IN ANTHROPOLOGY

2015

University of California Los Angeles

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FASHION AND DESIGN WRITING

Ongoing

I love writing anthropologically informed pieces for fashion and design journals.

Phantome Color Palette: Colors for a COVID World

Re-imagining Beauty in a time of COVID

Seminar Magazine

Marg, Cloth and India Issue

Fashion Opinion

Brand Launches

Bombay and Delhi Girl Style: A Two Part, Collaborative Essay

Disegno Magazine: A Critique of Marie Kondo

OCD REPORT WRITING AND EDITING

My clients include The World Bank, ILO, and the ORF.

Ongoing

FOOD & TRAVEL

Ongoing

I have reviewed tons of restaurants in the city. I am dead honest, even after four martinis.

I've eaten my way through Delhi

Roads and Kingdoms

and recently written a micro history of the finger bowl for The Eater

BOOK PROJECT

Ongoing

I am editing a compilation about clothing in India. I've never had more fun. There are over 20 talents who have contributed to the project. It needs a title. Badly.

Sneak Peek

HOTEL REVIEWS

September 2014 - June 2016

Sometimes, I have the fabulous job of reviewing wonderful hotels around the world for The World Boutique Hotel Awards.

Life in a Portuguese Castle

Life on a Coconut Estate

Life in a Goan Villa

LATEST WORK

April 2021

Labels, for Fifty Two

An Ode to Shoplifting, for the Columbia Journal

Girl, Interrupted for Harpers Bazaar June/ July 2020

Beauty in a Time of Recession for Harpers Bazaar, June /July 2020

We The Queens for Vittles, March 2021

Decolonizing Fashion Vocabulary for Dismantle, March 2021

And I just did an interview for The Swaddle, where I talked at length about inequality in the 'sustainable' fashion industry.

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