PUBLISHED ESSAYS:
1. "Ginanic
Travails, Conflicted Knowledge." To be Published. 2011
2. "Foreword." MK Gandhi. My Experiments With Truth. Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2011.
3. “Lamenting Kilimanjaro.” The Toronto Star, March 2008.
4. “On the Crisis in Kenya.” Maclean’s. January 2008.
5. “Introduction.” Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai. New
Delhi: Random House, 2008.
6. "If Only It Happened: On the Crisis in Kenya." Macleans
7. “Introduction.” The Street, by Mordecai Richler. Toronto:
Penguin, 2007.
8. “I Was a City Boy, a Soft Asian.” New Internationalist, December 2006.
9. “Introduction.” The Deptforfd Trilogy, by Robertson
Davies. Toronto: Penguin, 2006.
10. “Am I a Canadian Writer?” Editorial, Canadian Literature 190, Autumn 2006.
11. "Canada and Me: Finding Ourselves." in Passages. Toronto: Doubleday 2002.
12. "Life at the Margins, in the Thick of Multiplicity.'' In Between the Lines, ed. Deepika Bahri. Temple University Press,
1997.
13. "Community as Fictional Character.'' Studies in Humanities
and Social Science, 1994 (publication of the Indian Institute of
Advanced Study).
14. "The Dark Side of Home,'' Indian Express, February 1993.
15 "First Impressions.'' En Route (Air Canada
magazine) July 1992.
16. "Ethnic Identity Survives First Generation.'' Toronto Star July 30, 1991.
17. "On Voice Appropriation.'' Books in
Canada Spring 1991.
18. "Is There a South Asian Canadian Literature?'' Toronto South
Asian Review Vol 6, No 3, Spring 1988.
19. "Introduction.'' A Meeting of Streams: South Asian
Canadian Literature. ed. M G Vassanji (Toronto: Tsar, 1985).
20. "Canadian Punjabi Literature,.' Toronto South Asian Review Vol 2, No 1, Spring 1983.
SELECTED LECTURES:
1. "What Is the Commonwealth?" Keynote
address, Commonwealth Seminar during the Commonwealth Games,
New Delhi, October 2010.
2. “So As Not to Die." Delivered at McGill University, 2010.
3. “Writing from the Places In-between." Smuts
Lecture, University of Cambridge. 2010.
4. "A Novelist's Adventures in Nonfiction." Delivered
at Humber College, Summer 2010.
5. "Making Sense of a Small
Identity." Delivered at Conference on Gujarat. SOAS, Univ. of
London. 2010.
6. "Discovering Canada." Convocation Address, University of Toronto,
May 2009.
6. "Observations of a Writer at Large." Address,
University of Puerto Rico.
7. "How Do You Write the City." International Lawrence
Durrell Conference, Ottawa, June 2002. |