Khorshed Deboo

Khorshed Deboo is an independent writer and text editor based in Mumbai. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Scroll, The Hindu, The Caravan and Mint Lounge, among others. She writes on art and culture.

Requiem for a remembrance

A review of 'A Passage North' by Anuk Arudpragasam.

Oct 26, 2021

Revisiting the past, reimagining a future 

How an art magazine found a place in India’s nation-building narratives.

Feb 16, 2021

Latest Articles

How Southasia and Oman intertwined

In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa

Crisis in India’s bread basket

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike

A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between