public writing and translations
2022 Review of Wendy Doniger, Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History (Speaking Tiger Books, 2021), The Telegraph, February 4. https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/decoding-the-pegasus-puzzle/cid/1850393
2021 Review of Bihani Sarkar, Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India (I.B. Tauris, 2021), The Telegraph, September 3. https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/review-classical-sanskrit-tragedy-the-concept-of-suffering-and-pathos-in-medieval-india-by-bihani-sarkar/cid/1829183
2021 “Radio, Ghazals and Islami Gaan: What Nazrul’s Shift to Music said about his Syncretism” Daily Star, Dhaka, September 2. https://www.thedailystar.net/daily-star-books/news/radio-ghazals-and-islami-gaan-what-nazruls-shift-music-said-about-his-syncretism-2166716
2020 “In Memory of Professor Anisuzzaman, a Scholar of Bengals Past and Present,” Daily Star, Dhaka, May 22. https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/tribute/news/memory-prof-anisuzzaman-scholar-bengals-past-and-present-1904782
2018 “‘Kaikeyi to Dasharath’: How Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s Radical Poetry Reworked the Narrative: A translation by Ahona Panda of the Bengali poet and playwright’s most anthologized poem,” Scroll.in, March 18.
2015 “What Karna and Kunti Talked about the Night before the Battle of Kurukshetra: A New Translation of the Poem ‘Karna Kunti Samvad’, Recreating a Meeting between Them,” Scroll.in, November 8.