2021
Illinois City’s Reparations Plan was Heralded – But Locals Say it’s a Cautionary Tale (The Guardian)
Who’s Supervising Overtime at CPD? (South Side Weekly)
"Redemption on the Cheap": Will Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Legislation Work? (The Juggernaut)
"What Difference Would That Make?" (Chicago Reader)
Sharone Mitchell Jr. on Coming Home (South Side Weekly)
How Suburban Influence Defeated a Resolution to Condemn the Indian Government (Chicago Reader)
Mass Incarceration Draws Its Own Maps and Creates a Country In Its Image (The New Republic)
Calling the Georgia Shooting a 'Hate Crime' Won't Protect Asian Women (Newsweek)
What Went Wrong at Cook County Jail (Shadowproof)
Chicago Police Overtime Broke Department Records in 2020 (South Side Weekly)
Death to the Inspirational News Story (The New Republic)
"A Death Sentence": US Prisons Could Receive Covid Vaccines Last Despite Being Hotspots (The Guardian)
Cook County Jail Starts Vaccinating Detainees for COVID-19 (South Side Weekly)
"Vaccine Tourism": Tens of Thousands of Americans Cross State Lines for Injections (The Guardian)
Illinois Poised to Become First State to End Wealth-Based Pretrial Detention (The Guardian)
Should Incarcerated People Get Early Access to Covid-19 Vaccines? Illinois Says ‘Yes.’ (Injustice Watch)
2020
The Biden FCC Needs to Tackle Exorbitant Jail and Prison Call Prices (Slate)
Our Communities Don't Need to Prove Our Worth to White Supremacists (Wear Your Voice)
How Celebrating Diwali ‘Reminds Us to Create Our Own Light’ (Zora)
How South Asian Voters Shaped the 2020 Election (Zora)
How Cook County Jail Became the Country’s First Jail-Based Polling Place (Belt Magazine)
Should Protesters be Prosecuted? Foxx and O’Brien Differ (South Side Weekly)
How Nikki Haley Rose Through Republican Ranks (The Juggernaut)
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space Review (Shrapnel Magazine)
Kamala’s Complicated Relationship With the South Asian Community (Zora)
Let’s Discuss Caste and Colorism in ‘Indian Matchmaking’ (Zora)
#NoCopAcademy and the Movement to Defund the Police (Belt Magazine)
My Fellow Asian Americans, We Need to Stand in Solidarity With Black Lives Matter (SELF)
‘Filling Out the Census is like Wearing a Mask’ (Chicago Reader)
Pramila Jayapal Goes Against the Grain (The Juggernaut)
Most of the People Arrested at the Protests Were Black (Chicago Reader)
The Complicated, Vital Work of Helping Domestic Violence Survivors in a Pandemic (SELF)
Sitting Ducks: ‘Leaving People in the Jail Is Leaving People to Die’ (South Side Weekly)
How the Pandemic Changed — and Fueled — the Fight Against Anti-Asian Racism (SELF)
City Cited a School for Feeding Protesters (South Side Weekly)
Nordic Noir Might Be TV's Next Big Thing (Shondaland)
The Contradictions of a Progressive Police Chief (South Side Weekly)
The South Asian Americans Left Behind (The Juggernaut)
Stop Pretending Caste Doesn’t Exist (Zora)
The Unexpected Rise of Rishi Sunak (The Juggernaut)
Ignore the Pressure to be Productive During Lockdown (The Guardian)
Democracy by Mail (Belt Magazine)
Incarcerated at Home (South Side Weekly)
Seema Verma and the Desi Wall of Shame (The Juggernaut)
How to Count in a Pandemic (Chicago Reader)
What COVID-19 and the Chicago Heat Wave of 1995 Have in Common (Belt Magazine)
Rust Belt Mutual Aid (Belt Magazine)
I Walked Right out of Terminal 5 and into the City (Chicago Reader)
Meet the Candidates: Q & A with State's Attorney Kim Foxx (South Side Weekly)
Meet the Candidates: Q & A with Challenger Bill Conway (South Side Weekly)
Seen But Not Counted (Chicago Reader)
South Asian Girls Are the Stars, Not the Sidekicks in Desi Chick Lit (Zora)
Conway's Millions (South Side Weekly)
Keeping Tabs on Kim Foxx (South Side Weekly)
How America's Oldest Mosque Became an Icon of the Midwest (The Juggernaut)
Beyond Mangoes and Monsoons: Rupi Kaur and Exploiting Diaspora Trauma (Shrapnel Magazine)
New Year’s Eve Traditions Through the Eyes of Women of Color (Zora)
Pre-2020
Reframing the Narrative (South Side Weekly)
Did They Send Us Here To Die (Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting)
Housing Rights Activists in Delhi Redefine 'Women's Issues' (Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting)
A Day in Delhi's Resettlement Colonies (Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting)
A History of Bail Reform: Part 1 (South Side Weekly)
The Battle Against Money Bonds: Part 2 (South Side Weekly)
Shifting Fronts in Bail Reform: Part 3 (South Side Weekly)
Evans’s Bond Court Order Under Watch (South Side Weekly)
Stories of Reform and Resistance (South Side Weekly)
Reading the Tea Leaves: Labor Rights Violations on India's Tea Plantations (Chicago Policy Review)
On the Ground (South Side Weekly)
Words, Pictures, and Gestures from Louder Than a Bomb (South Side Weekly)
The Satellite Dorms: Culture, Traditions, and the Making of Home (Grey City)