Awards, Grants, and Patents
- Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing (2016), US
- Winner of The Hindu Prize (2017), India
- Winner of the Moore Prize (2018), UK
- Shortlisted for the Believer Book Award (2017), US
- Shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize (2018), India
- Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award (2019), Ireland
- Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (2017), US
- Longlisted for The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature (2018), India
- Winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award (2014), US
- Shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award (2018), India
- Margaret Bridgman Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf (2019)
- Writer in Residence at WATERLINES (2018), Brown University (2018) and Sangam House (2016)
