Fiction

Novel

2022: My first novel, Lying Eyes, was published by Balestier Press. It was longlisted for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2022 and chosen as Editors’ Choice by The Historical Novels Review and selected for the Indie Books We Love section by LoveReading UK.

Short stories

2024: Truth be Told, in Suspect, USA and New Naratif, Malaysia

2023: No Place for Soft Men, in Literary Shanghai

2016: Skin, in Takahe, New Zealand

2014: “Swapping: a True Singapore Ghost Story” in Wasafiri, UK

2013: “Inflection” in 34th Parallel, USA

          “The Examination” in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, USA

2012: “Innocence” in Mascara Literary Review, Australia and Newleaf, Germany

2011: “The King, the Saint and the Fool”, in Asia Literary Review, Hong Kong

2009: “The Crossing” in Muse India

2008: “The Outsider” in Bear Fruit, National Library, Singapore.

2003: “The Marriage Certificate”, in Silverfish 4, Kuala Lumpur

Translations

2021: Bride of the City (in two volumes), Acharya Chatursen

2017: Hindi Tales of Mystery and Imagination Volume 1, Ed. Archana Verma

2016: The Dancer, Her Lover and the Yogi, Bhagwati Charan Verma

2015: The Bowl Full of Blood, Devakinandan Khatri

I was co-translator for the first three works above.

Support of new writing

I am a member of Cernunnos (www.cernunnosbooks.com), a fiction collective dedicated to taking lesser-known voices across borders. Cernunnos Books has supported new writing in Hindi through two Hindi Tales of Mystery and Imagination contests with generous cash prizes. In Singapore, I have helped run a writing group, Caferati, since 2010 (with a hiatus during 2014-2017).

Book reviews

·       I regularly post reviews on Goodreads. Some examples: a review of Jhoota Sach/ This Is Not That Dawn and two untranslated novels, Shah aur Maat and Nachyo Bahut Gopal.

·       I am a reviewer for The Historical Novels Review (this is a volunteer role which I applied for after the publication selected my first novel as Editors’ Choice; I cover books set in Asia).