Creative Nonfiction and Longform Essays


In Search of Shitala
The Chakkar, March 2025
Deities like Shitala represent a specific premodern response to disease. Paromita Patranobish explores what Bengal’s pox goddess could teach us about social ethics in Anthropocene times.

Red Circles
The Hooghly Review, 2024


A Short History of Dust
Hakara Bilingual, June 2021

Spectacle of the Stars: A memory of magic from the night sky
The Chakkar, January 2021



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