Fiction Publications

• “Living Expenses”, The Martian Wave, Fall 2004
• “The Last Theorem”, AlienSkin Magazine, October 2004
• “The End of the Final Frontier”, Fifth Di…, March 2005
• “The Man Who Looked”, Ethereal Gazette #3, March 2006
• “Butterfly Jesus Saves the World”, Fictitious Force #2, April 2006
• “How To Be A Hero”, Stanford Intermission, May 26, 2006
• “Like Diamonds In The Sky”, Aiofe’s Kiss, June 2006
• “What We Know,” Space Squid #4, Spring 2007
• “The Cheap Crusade,” Nature, October 17, 2008
• “The Association of the Dead,” Clarkesworld #46, July 2010
• “Death’s Flag Is Never At Half-Mast,” Redstone Science Fiction #3, August 2010
• “The Other Realms Were Built With Trash,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (Forthcoming)

Dungeons and Dragons Articles

• “Gloves of the Common Man”, d20Weekly, January 2003
• “Myths of the Shadow’, DRAGON Magazine, November 2004

You’re Not Special – Column in Stanford Daily

• “Stop. Please. Just Stop.” Feb. 6, 2008
• “America is for Americans”. Feb 13, 2008
  • Letter to the Editor: “Racism and Xenophobia”. Feb. 14, 2008
• “An ode to Hennessy”. Feb 20, 2008
  • Letter to the Editor: “An ode to condescending skeptics”. Feb 22, 2008
• “Activists focus on superficial change”. Feb 27, 2008
• “Money doesn’t matter”, March 5, 2008
• “Nice guys make bad presidents”. March 12, 2008
• “A temple of my very own”. April 2, 2008
• “Words on paper”. April 9, 2008
• “Lawsuits are killing the vibe”. April 16, 2008
• “An excess of leisure”. April 23, 2008
• “The quiet life”. April 30, 2008
• “The king of America”. May 7, 2008
• “We’re not all in this together”. May 14, 2008
• “War crimes and word crimes”. May 28, 2008
• “The shining city grows dark”. June 5, 2008

Techie Repairs the World – My first column in the Stanford Daily. Written a long time ago.

• “My Unfathomable Alien Intellect”, February 9, 2005
• “Belief In God–So Wrong, Yet So Right”, February 16, 2005
• “The Republicans Were Right”, February 23, 2005
• “Incubating Roe”, March 2, 2005
• “Typing Under The Influence”, March 9, 2005
• “Stop Worrying And Love The Aliens”, March 30, 2005
• “The Ownership Society”, April 6, 2005
• “Social Insecurity”, April 13, 2005
• “Hooray for usury”, April 20, 2005
• “Give Peace A Chance”, April 27, 2005
• “Turning Jets Into Free Lunches”, May 4, 2005
• “The Great American Road Trip”, May 11, 2005
• “www.stanfordinvest.com”, May 18, 2005
• “The Answers Are In Outer Space”, May 25, 2005
• “The Gravy Train Is Out of Gravy”, June 1, 2005

Miscellaneous

• Rahul Kanakia’s Potion Quest – a mod for Baldur’s Gate 2 that was later incorporated into SimDing0′s Quest Pack.
• Desai, Sonalde and Rahul Kanakia. Profiles of a Diasporic Community. Seminar: The Diaspora. 2004 – Co-authored with my mother when I was eighteen. Kind of embarassing to have floating around the net. But what can you do?