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Nov 2021 - Hong Kong International Literary Festival - Interviewer. With novelists Alice Pung and Emily McGuire
May 2021 - Hong Kong International Literary Festival - Interviewer. With novelist Catherine Menon
Jan 2020 - Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) museum - Illustrated lecture on Stray Birds on the Huangpu: A History of Indians in Shanghai. Mumbai, India
Jan 2020 - Historic city walk with Nazia Vasi and Alisha Sadikote - Tour guide. Mumbai, India
Jan 2020 - Jaipur Literature Festival - Book talk & Across Genres panel. Jaipur, India
Mar 2019 - Asia Society, India by the Bay festival event - Panel with Dr. Madhavi Thampi and Dr. Zhang Ke on Stray Birds on the Huangpu, A History of Indians in Shanghai. Hong Kong
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Shanghai International Book Fair - book launch. Shanghai, China
Historic Shanghai Society - Book panel. Shanghai, China
Ports and Port Cities in Indian Ocean Connections, Annual Conference of the Center for Global Asia, NYU-Shanghai - Speaker. Shanghai, China
Melbourne Writers Festival, a Jaipur Literary Festival event - Panelist. Melbourne, Australia
Historic Shanghai Society - Panel. With novelist Meng Jin. Shanghai, China
The 2017 Pen International Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee Conference - Delegate. Bengaluru, India
Hong Kong Book Fair - Book talk. Hong Kong
Hong Kong Through Shanghai Eyes, Hong Kong International Literary Festival - Panelist. With Dr. Jeff Wasserstrom and Dr. Elizabeth Sinn. Hong Kong
Asia-Pacific Writers & Translators Conference - Participant. Guangzhou, China
Kala Ghoda Festival - Speaker and fiction panelist. Mumbai, India.
Shanghai International Literary Festival, South Asian Voices in Global Conversations - Moderator. With novelists Kunal Basu and Sunethra Rajakarunanayake, and writer Arvind Subramaniam. Joint event by the Consulates-general of Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan. Shanghai, China
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences - Speaker. China-India relations conference. Shanghai, China
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies - Special Lecture. Kolkata, India
Central Asian Studies conference, Jawaharlal Nehru University - Speaker. New Delhi, India
Academic-Business Seminar on India-China academic and cultural relations - Speaker. Shanghai, China
Mountain Echoes, the Bhutan Festival of Literature, Art & Culture - Book launch. Thimpu, Bhutan
Cities Roads and Caravan Sarais, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts with India’s Ministry of External Affairs - Speaker. New Delhi, India
On the Nalanda Trail; Buddhism in India, China and Southeast Asia exhibition at the Asian Civilisations Museum of Singapore - Lecture to the Friends of the Museum. Singapore
East Asian Institute & Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore - Lecture. Singapore
Shanghai International Literary Festival - Interviewer. Novelist Mohammed Hanif, A Case of Exploding Mangoes. Shanghai, China
Shanghai International Literary Festival - Book talk. Shanghai, China
The Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Foreign Correspondents' Club - Book talk. Hong Kong
India International Centre - Book talk. New Delhi, India -
Q&A With Author Mishi Saran on Uncovering Shanghai’s Parsi Past – Sixth Tone
Reading (and writing) about someplace else: Mishi Saran – Asian Books Blog
New book charts Indian community in China – Shine
So near and yet so far – ChinaDaily
Woman, uninterrupted: An excellent collection of essays about being a woman writer – The Hindu
‘The past holds the secret to the present’ – Entertainment Times
The Shanghai connection – Business Standard
