• “How Cultural Identity Permeates Hindi Drama” Review of Diana Dimitrova’s Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays published in The Book Review. September 2023, Vol 47, No.9.
  • “Mapping Urdu Nazm Across Geographies” review of Hazar Rang Shayari by Anisur Rehman The Book Review MARCH 2023, VOLUME 47, NO 3.
  • ”The Woman Who Dared to Break Taboos”, The Book Review DECEMBER 2022, VOLUME 46, NO 12, ISSN: 0970-4175].
  • “A Paen to 1857” Review of Ali Khan Mahmoodabad’s translation The Break of Dawna
    novel by Khan Mahboob Tarzi, South Asia II- XXXVII The Book Review, Volume XLV No 10, October 2021, pp 41-42.
  • “Dastan’s Enchanted World ”Literary Review of Tarana Husain’s The Begum and the Dastan in The Book Review, Volume XLV No 8, August 2021, pp12-13.
  • “Creative Journeys around Cityscapes” Review of Stuti Khanna’s Writing the City: looking Within, Looking Without, in The Book Review, Volume 45, No. 2 February 2021.
  • “Complex Life-Worlds We Inhabit”, Review of Mirza Athar Baig’s novel Hassan’s State of Affairs in The Book Review, VOLUME XLIV NUMBERS 2-3 APRIL 2020.
  • Literary Review of ‘Blind’ by Joginder Paul in Indian Literature Issue No.313, September October 2019. [ ISSN No. 0970-4175].
  • “Eclectic Collection” Review of Greatest Urdu Short Stories by Muhammad Umar Menon The Book Review, June 2018. [ ISSN No. 0970-4175]
  • Review of “The Lost World of Sarla Devi: Selected Writings by Sachidananda Mohanty,” The Book Review, XLI, No.4, January 2017.[ISSN No. 0970-4175]
  • ‘Oral Histories of Partition’ Review of Devika Chawla’s, Home, Uprooted: Oral Histories of India’s Partition. New York: Fordham University Press, H-Net Reviews, An initiative of Department of History, Michigan State University, 2015.
  • “Abounding in Imagery’ A Review of Ranjani Neria’s anthology PROMISE: A LIFE Virgin Leaf Books, http://www.thebookreviewindia.org/articles/archives-4310/2014/de-cember/12/abounding-in-imagery.html, The Book Review, New Delhi Vol. XXXVII I Number 12, Dec 2014. [ISSN No. 0970-4175]
  • “Allegorization of Nation” A Review of A Dirge for the Dammed by Vishwas Patil, translated from the Marathi by Keerti Ramachandra, Hachette India, The Book Review, New Delhi, VOLUME XXXVIII Number 8, Aug 2014.[ ISSN No. 0970-4175]
  • “A Life Well Lived” A Review of Memoirs by Habib Tanvir, Indian Literature, 6July Aug 2013, pp 194 197, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, (ISSN 00195804), 2013.
  • “Untangling Human Complexities” A Review of The Dying Sun: Stories by Joginder Paul Translated into English by Usha Nagpal and Keerti Ramchandra, The Book Review, New Delhi, Vol. XXXVII Number 8, Aug 2013.[ISSN No. 0970-4175]
  • “A Novel As Witness” A Review of Roll of Honour by Amandeep Sandhu, The Book Review, New Delhi, Vol. XXXVII Number 7 July 2013. [ISSN No. 0970-4175]
  • “The Inimitable Centenarian” A Review of ZOHRA SEGAL ‘FATTY’ by Kiran Segal in The Book Review, New Delhi, Vol. XXXVII NUMBER 1 Jan 2013.
  • A Review of A Life in Words: Memoirs by Ismat Chughtai, Translated by M Asaduddin (Penguin Books 2012), DNA, Sunday, May 6, 2012.
  • “Traversing the Two Worlds: The Folktales of Vijaydan Detha”, A Review of Vijaydan Detha. Chouboli and Other Stories. Translated by Christi A. Merrill and Kailash Kabir in H-Net Reviews, An initiative of Department of History, Michigan State University, 2012. A Review of BLUE BLOOD by Uttara Chauhan, The Book Review, New Delhi, Vol. XXXVI NUMBER 5 May 2012.
  • “Conveying an Indian Ethos” A Review of Closure: Some Poems and A Conversation by
    Kamala Das and Suresh Kohli; 50 POEMS: 30 SELECTED 20 NEW by Zulfikar Ghose; SLOW DANCE by Saleem Peeradina; POEMS by Margaret Chatterjee; LUMINOUS ILLUSIONS by P. K. Mohanty; WHISPERING MIND by K. P. Shashidharan; SEVENTEEN OCEANS by Sandeep Mitra in The Book Review, New Delhi, VOLUME XXXVI NUMBER 4, April, 2012.
  • “Fiction on a Journey of Self-Discovery”, Literary Review of The Country is Yours Translated and Introduced by Manjushree Thapa, Seasons of Flight by Manjushree Thapa, Laburnum for My Head by Tamsula Ao, Pashtun Tales from Pakistan Afghanistan Frontier by Aisha Ahmed & Roger Boase, Insomnia and Other Stories by Aamer Hussein, New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2009, Another Gulmohar Tree by Aamer Hussein, New Delhi: Penguin, 2009, Tales in Colour and Other Stories by Kunzang Choden, New Delhi: Zubaaan. 2009, Short Takes: Stories from Bangladesh by Tanvir Malik, Mumbai: Frog Books 2010 in The Book Review, New Delhi South Asia Special –XVII, Volume XXXV, Number 3, March, 2011.
  • “A Complex Linguistic Phenomenon” A review of Tariq Rahman’s From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History (Orient BlackSwan 2011), The Book Review, NewDelhi Volume XXXV Number 9, August-September 2011.
  • “An Epic Fantasy” A Review of Tilism-i-Hoshruba: The Enchantment of the Senses Abridged and Translated by Shahnaz Aijazuddin, in The Book Review, New Delhi Volume XXXIV, Number 2, February 2010.
  • ‘Personal to Political’ A Review of A Bad Woman’s Story by Kishwar Naheed Translated by Durdana Soomro, (Oxford University Press, Karachi 2009) in The Book Review, New Delhi, Volume XXXIV Number 3, March 2010.
  • “Another Chronicle of Loss/and Love” A review of The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems by Agha Shahid Ali, The Book Review, New Delhi, South Asia Special XVI, Volume XXXIV, August 2010.
  • “Exploring Female Subjectivity”, Literary review of Interior Decoration, poems by 54 women in 10 languages, Ed. Ammu Joseph, Vasanth Kannabiran, Ritu Menon and Volga (Woman Unlimited, New Delhi 2010), The Book Review, New Delhi, Volume XXXIV Number 10, October 2010.
  • “The Subaltern in Society” Literary reviews of The Young Wife and Other Stories by Zaib-Un-Nisa Hamidullah. and Selected Plays by Shahid Nadeem (Oxford University Press, Karachi 2008) in The Book Review, New Delhi, Volume XXXIII Number 5, May 2009.[ISSN No. 0970-4175]
  • A Review of Basti by Intizar Hussain, Trans. By Frances Prichette, Indian Literature, 244 Mar-Apr 2008, pp179-184, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, (ISSN 0019-5804), 2008.
  • Review of The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature (2 Volumes) Ed. Mehr Afshan Farooqi), published in Third Frame Volume I No. 2, 2008 pp 104-107 Foundation Books, New Delhi ( An Imprint of Cambridge University Press) & Academy of Third World Studies, JMI, New Delhi, 2008.
  • “A Storyteller with a Difference” A Review of Snake Catcher Ed. by Muhammad Umar Memon (Penguin 2005), The Book Review, New Delhi, Oct 2007.
  • A Review of Padmarag and Sultana’s Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Penguin 2005), The Book Review, New Delhi, Dec 2006.
  • ‘New Urdu Fictions (Katha 2004), Compiled by Joginder Paul. Ed. M Asaduddin, in The Annual of Urdu Studies (AUS) Vol. 20, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ed. Muhammad Umar Memon, (ISSN: 0734-5348), 2005.
  • Zaidi N. Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing. Amina Yaqin (London: Anthem Press, 2022). pp. 294 £80.00, ISBN-13: 978-1-78527-755-9. Critical Pakistan Studies. 2023;1(1-2):238-240. doi:10.1017/cps.2024.5