Non-Fiction Books
Bombay/Mumbai Immersions
— with photographer Christopher Taylor
“Chabria, brilliant wordsmith and affectionate narrator, holds our hands while walking us through the history of the city… (she is interpreter and interlocutor, true, but also both doctor and nurse, taking care of diagnosis and convalescence. …) That is what makes this book such a rare reading and viewing pleasure. You already know the story of Bombay. But you must read this book because you want to know again, because every time you blink, the old becomes new again."
— Sumana Roy
Poet, writer fiction & literary nonfiction, The Sunday Gaurdian
“...captivating exploration of the public and the secret lives of one of the world’s largest metropolitan hubs”
— Ranjit Hoskote
Reviews:
Beauty in the Beast, Uddalak Mukherjee, Telegraph India
Bombay/Mumbai: Immersions, Mustansir Dalvi, TimeOut Mumbai
Into Mumbai’s heart, Anupama Raju, The Hindu
Mumbai’s quaint immersions in light and darkness, Sumana Roy, The Sunday Guardian
Forthcoming
Non-Fiction Essays & Papers
Essays
Voyages of Body and Soul, Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK) 2014
Translating Bharat Reading India (Yatra Books, India) 2016
The Bahuroopiya in a Bhoolbuliya: Rupture and Rapture
The Centrality of Wander in Creative Practice, Journal Lab, 2000
*The Unveiled catalogue, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, 2003
Will a Phoenix rise? Censorship by the mob, Journal Adelphiniana 3, 2004
Papers at Seminars
Critical Perspectives – Writing the Now: Postmodernism, Nationalism and the esemplastic imagination, Sahitya Akademi New Voices, 2004
Jal Sutra, seminar paper, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, 2003
Musicals and the Construction of National Identity, University of California, USA, 2000
Literature: Profusion and Simultaneity in Indian Art Practice, Film and the Other Arts, Filmoteca Espanola, Madrid, 1999
Mahabharata: Texts, Contexts, Readings Menaka’s Intervention, Indian Academy of Literature Golden Jubilee Celebrations, New Delhi, 2004
Transformed Images: The Case of Hiroshighe’s “Great Wave” and the Abhisarika Nayika, India International Center’s Quarterly, 2004