Nominations - Best of small fiction 2025, Undercurrents, South Florida Poetry Journal 

Featured by Alien Buddha Press as featured artist of February 2025.

Best of the Net 2024 Nomination: On a Trail

Best of the Net 2024 Nomination: Making a Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist 2024: Cruising Through The Night Sky

Longlist - Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award 2023-2024 (Florida Review)

Finalist 2024 WTAW Alcove Chapbook Series

Pushcart Prize 2023 Nomination: Mango Pickle in Summer

Best Of The Net 2023 Nomination: Dancing to Rasputin

Contest Finalist, Flash Fiction Journal 2023

Two Pushcart Prize 2022 Nominations

Kenyon Review Writers Summer Workshop 2022 & 2023

TinHouse Summer Workshop 2023 & Winter Workshop 2022

Contest Winner, Beyond Words Literary Magazine

Awarded, Top 100 Indian authors 2021 by Critic Space Journals 

Awarded The Tagore Commemorative, a National Award for literary contribution

Featured in ‘The Week’ and ‘Outlook India’ 

Honorable mention, San Francisco book festival and New York book festival, 2021

Finalist, American book award 2021

Runners-up, Cherry book awards, India in non-fiction 

Finalist, Sharing Stories, India under self-help category

Two time finisher of Ironman 70.3, Brand Ambassador - Zoot and Oakland Triathlon 2019.

Contest Runner-up: www.swimbikestumble.com featuring my triathlon journey.