A Goan Christmas in Karachi
An essay on the foods with which Karachi's Goans celebrate Christmas, it traces the history of the community in the city and how it has evolved over the years.
The I Who Becomes A We - the importance of forgetting to fandom
An essay for the Indus Valley School's journal Hybrid, on why forgetting is essential to being a sports fan.
Explores the impact of fandom and forgetting in places like junta-run Argentina, the late Roman Empire, and war-torn Iraq.
Why Karachi’s Indigenous Coastal Cuisine Finds Itself on the Margins
Why Karachiites don’t eat seafood, and other myths. An essay for the New Lines Magazine, it explores the sociocultural reasons that have drowned out the city’s indigenous, coastal cuisine.
Strange Love
Written in 2014, this essay marked five years of Pakistan’s cricket exile. Speaking to fans, it traces a cultural history of the sport’s fandom, and how it has persisted despite the exile.