Portfolio

Short Stories

• A Look Behind An Indie Publishing House — Inkspot Publishing, Interview by Akshay Gajria, Mechanics Institute Review (MIR Online) [July 2025]
• The Intentionality Behind the Work: An interview with Christopher Paolini by Akshay Gajria, Mechanics Institute Review (MIR Online) [June 2024]
• On Time, Tamarind Literary Magazine Issue 7 [December 2024]
• Engineering Myself, Human Parts [February 2024]
• About Me – Akshay Gajria, About Me Stories [August 2022]

True Stories Told Live

• The Universe’s Masterplan, Spark True Stories [November 2025]
• Reject, The Moth Radio Hour [June 2025]
• Mama’s Boy, Tall Tales [September 2019]
• My First Story, Tall Tales [May 2018]
• Reject, Tall Tales [April 2017]
• Bona Fide, Tall Tales [December 2016]
• There Is Something About Mary, Tall Tales [April 2016]

Books

• Home, Akshay Gajria [Amazon KDP, March 2020]

Ghostwriting

• Delivering the Promises, B. D Nathani [Forthcoming]
• 10 Short True Stories for Asian Paints [Pulse Magazine, 2021-2022]
• One Dream is Not Enough, Badri Baldawa [Notion Press, September 2021)

Collaborations

• Reading Beyond the Lines, Lilya S. (Maiya Publishing, September 2022) | Editor
• Nautanki Saala and other stories, Mohua Chinnappa (Cursive, February 2022) | Mentor & Editor
• 8 Stories for Business and Professionals, Michael Burns (Falcon, September 2020) | Editor and contributor
• Best of Tall Tales, Michael Burns (Rupa, November 2018) | Copyeditor
• Hack into Your Creativity, Michael Burns (Peguin Random House, August 2017) | Co-contributor

Movies

• The Autobiography of a Dictionary, directed by Vijay Subramanian, Official Selection:
  • Bahamas International Film Festival 2019
  • Kids First! Film Festival 2019
  • Boston International Film Festival 2020
  • Tamil Nadu International Film Festival 2020

• Bio, directed by Shifas Sharaf

On Writing

• My New Secret Power: Effie, The Writing Cooperative [September 2022]
• Armour Up: How to Protect Your Writing Time, The Writing Cooperative [August 2022]
• Build Your Writing Stamina, The Writing Cooperative [June 2022]
• Please Do Not Write a Book, The Writing Cooperative [April 2022]
• Show up for Your Writing, The Book Mechanic [November 2021]
• Adventures in Self-Publishing, The Book Mechanic [August 2021]
• Why Do We Write, Storymaker [July 2021]
• Re-reading, The Coffeelicious [August 2020]
• Self-Editing Your Second Draft, The Book Mechanic [April 2020]
• A Note on Editors, The Coffeelicious. [February 2020]
• Finding my Voice, The Coffeelicious. [November 2019]
• Headspace, The Writing Cooperative. [January 2018]
• Don’t be a Writer, The Writing Cooperative. [January 2018]
• My Writing Time, The Coffeelicious [November 2017]
• Whom Do You Write For?, The Writing Cooperative [October 2017]
• An Editor’s Confessions, The Coffeelicious [July 2016]
• Thriving on Rejection [November 2015]
• Why Do I Write?, In Your Own Words [March 2014]

Blogs

• For my Readers [September 2021]
• Health(ier) Standards [August 2021]
• The Magic Potion [June 2021]
• Why I Decided To Go Bald [February 2021]
• On the days I can’t write… [November 2020]
• The Child in Me [September 2020]
• Meeting Sirius [March 2020]
• Avoir l’Esprit d’Escalier [October 2019]
• Home: Then and Now [December 2017]
• Death of the Bookstores [December 2017]
• Fragmented Memories [November 2017]
• A Writer’s Thoughts in his Moment of Plight [October 2017]
• Islands of No Rain [October 2017]
• Birthday Blues [September 2017]
• Back to Basics [September 2017]
• Writing on Those In-Between Days [January 2016]
• Writing by Hand [August 2015]
• The Mother [August 2015]
• Last Point in a Bucket List [May 2015]
• A Tale of Two Coffees [March 2014]

Writing Experiments

• Books and Broken Hearts published in the Coffeelicious. [October 2021]
• A Dollop of Nonsense published in Storymaker. [October 2020]
• What We Hold On To published in the Coffeelicious. [October 2018]
• Mental Landscapes published in the Coffeelicious. [August 2018]
• Parenting 101 For Serial Killers published in the Coffeelicious. [June 2016]
• An Experiment published in the Coffeelicious. [August 2015]
• The Silence published in the Coffeelicious. [November 2014]

Technology

• A Writer’s Studio Setup published in Mac O’Clock. [March 2022]
• iPad Air 5 or iPad Pro 11”? published in Mac O’Clock. [March 2022]
• Who is the Studio Display For? published in Mac O’Clock. [March 2022]
• Using Apple Watch Series 2 in 2022 published in Mac O’Clock. [February 2022]
• Best Text Editing Keyboard Shortcuts for iPad published in Mac O’Clock. [February 2022]
• This Accessory Will Take Your iPad Setup to the Next Level published in Mac O’Clock. [January 2022]
• I was wrong about iPhone 13 published in Mac O’Clock. [December 2021]
• The Magic Keyboard for the iPad: A Writer’s Review published in Mac O’Clock. [November 2021]
• The New MacBook Pros are Great published in Mac O’Clock. [October 2021]
• iPad Mini is a Gap Filling Device published in Mac O’Clock. [September 2021]
• I’m Sticking to my iPhone 12 published in Mac O’Clock. [September 2021]
• How to Download Kindle E-books on an iPhone published in Mac O’Clock. [August 2021]
• The Magic Ingredient in my iPad Pro Setup published in Technology Hits. [July 2021]
• Is iPadOS 15 really a Disappointment? published in Mac O’Clock. [June 2021]
• WWDC21: 9 Exciting Little Features in iPadOS 15 published in Mac O’Clock. [June 2021]
• My iPadOS 15 Wishlist published in Mac O’Clock. [May 2021]
• Should the iPad Pro run MacOS? published in Mac O’Clock. [May 2021]
• The Apple TV is a Land of Missed Opportunities published in Mac O’Clock. [May 2021]
• I have a crush on the new iMac published in Mac O’Clock. [April 2021]
• iPad Pro 2021 — The Future of iPad is Now published in Mac O’Clock. [April 2021]
• 5 Great Games on Apple Arcade published in Mac O’Clock. [April 2021]
• My Writing Workflow on an iPad published in Mac O’Clock. [March 2021]
• Get the most out of your iPhone published in Mac O’Clock. [February 2021]
• The Writer’s Computer published in Mac O’Clock. [January 2021]
• My Reluctant iPhone 12 Purchase published in Mac O’Clock. [December 2020]
• Thoughts on the HomePod Mini published in Mac O’Clock. [December 2020]

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