News
My New York Times OP-ED piece on math appreciation, “How to Fall in Love with Math” (Sep 16, 2013)
My New York Times OP-ED piece on how the US gay marriage ruling may help gay rights all over the world, “The Court’s Global Message on DOMA.” (Jun 30, 2013)
My autobiographical article in Granta magazine, “How to be Gay and Indian” (Jun 25, 2013)
BBC’s “The Forum” features me talking about “Obsessions, new and old, in literature and technology” (Apr 7, 2013).
Fantastic review for “The City of Devi” in the UK Guardian (Mar 21, 2013).
How mathematics almost killed “The City of Devi”: article in The Daily Beast (Mar 15, 2013).
Manil Suri’s top ten books on Mumbai in the Guardian (Mar 13, 2013).
Read a New York Times interview with me (February 25, 2013).
Manil Suri’s top five books on New India’s soul in Goodreads (February, 2013).
Manil Suri shares his writing secrets in the Wall Street Journal (February 9, 2013).
Excellent review for “The City of Devi” by Sam Sacks in the Wall Street Journal (Feb 4, 2013).
Definitive nationally broadcast interview with Scott Simon on NPR’s weekend edition. (January 29, 2013).
Ron Charles at the Washington Post reviews “The City of Devi” (January 29, 2013)
Read “A Literary Sex Education in Mumbai.” This is a piece on the first “transformative” book one may have read as a teen — for me, it was by Harold Robbins. (National Public Radio, January 7, 2013).
Read “The Silver Spring Laxmi,” a short story published in The Washington Post (November 2012).
Read “Mathematics and What It Means to Be Human,” an essay on the intersection of mathematics and the humanities, in The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 2012).
My interview in the Science section of the New York Times by the iconic Claudia Dreifus (June 17, 2008).
“The Writing Life” On balancing mathematics with writing, in The Washington Post, February 8, 2009.
“X=50 Semesters” An article on completing 25 years of teaching mathematics, in The New York Times Magazine, September 21, 2008.
A video of my Bollywood strip-tease dance in the middle of Brooklyn (Sep 14, 2008).
“The Age of Shiva” gets a great review in the New York Times (February 24, 2008).
My essay “What Unites India” published in India Today on the occasion of India’s 60th independence day anniversary (Aug 8, 2007).
“The Tolman Trick,” my short story on the nature of proof and what it means to be a mathematician, originally published in the literary journal “SUBTROPICS” 1, 85 – 101 (2006).
“The Death of Vishnu” bags the coveted cover review in the New York Times Book Review section (Jan 28, 2001).
My interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air. (Feb 5, 2001).
“The Seven Circles” my first piece of published fiction, in the New Yorker (Feb 6, 2000).
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