2025 – ‘Tamil Nadu lost nothing by not teaching Hindi’, Scroll.in, March 19, 2025. https://scroll.in/india/language-divide
2024 – ‘Mangala Vadyam: Sheik Chinna Moulana and the World of the Nadaswaram’, ON Stage, National Centre for the Performing Arts, April 2024, pp. 20–23.
2016 – ‘Dr. V. Shanta: A Woman Pioneer in the Male World of Oncology’, The Wire, March 10, 2016.
2015 – ‘Remembering Chandralekha: Artist, Choreographer, Feminist’, The Wire, December 30, 2015.
2010a – ‘The Phenomenon of Bollywood in Europe’, The Hindu, October 2010.
2010b – ‘A Doctor and Institution Builder’, The Hindu, July 7, 2010.
2009b – ‘It Is Time to Get Politically Active’ (On the attacks on Indians in Australia), in the feature ‘Curry Bashing: Race or Economics’, Asian Age, June 7, 2009, p. 12.
2005a – ‘Aliceben: Don with a Conscience’ (Tribute to Alice Thorner), Tehelka, October 1, 2005, p. 28.
2005b – ‘Illness as Metaphor’ (On the work of Dr. Shanta at Adyar Cancer Institute), Tehelka, September 10, 2005, pp. 22–23.
2000 – ‘Whose Responsibility Are the Elderly?’, Humanscape, Vol. VII, Issue VIII, August 2000, pp. 29–32.
1997 – ‘The Subaltern Contribution to the Freedom Struggle’, The Indian Express, Nagpur, p. 10; Financial Express, Ahmedabad, p. 11, June 13, 1997.
1993 – ‘Bombay – Through a Smokescreen’ (Report on the conference on Bombay organized at SNDT Women’s University), The Economic Times, Bombay, January 10, 1993, p. 11.
1992 – ‘An Ear for Women’s Chit-Chat’ (On the Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women – SPARROW), The Economic Times, January 15, 1992, p. 13.
1988 – ‘Stree in Moscow’ (On the exhibition STREE: Women in India at the Festival of India in USSR), Express Magazine, Indian Express, May 8, 1988, p. 3.