[1] Ishq and Mushq is a family saga which illuminates the problem of cultural identity for immigrants over several generations, and raises questions of memory, exile and self-rediscovery.

Basil's work has been translated into Italian,[7] German,[8] Russian,[9] Bulgarian,[10] Brazilian Portuguese,[11] Dutch,[12] Croatian,[13] and Serbian.

In September 2013, Basil signed the German novelist Juli Zeh's Open Letter to Angela Merkel.

[26] The other initiators are Juli Zeh, Ilija Trojanow, Eva Menasse, Janne Teller, Isabel Cole and Josef Haslinger.

The appeal was published through exclusive deals with leading newspapers in more than thirty countries worldwide, for example in Germany the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,[27] and is also an online pledge at Change.org which the general public can sign.

She spoke at Re:publica Berlin 2014, and has published essays and articles about the threat mass surveillance poses to democracy and individual freedom, including in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel and the Danish newspaper Politiken.

In 2013, 2014 and 2015 Priya Basil was one of the 20-odd recommended writers on a list which included Hannah Arendt, Arundhati Roy, Nawal El Saadawi, Herta Müller and Juli Zeh.

In 2018, at the invitation of Sonja Longolius and Janika Gelinek, directors of the Literaturhaus Berlin, she curates A European Holiday!

Archived 29 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine – an event intended not just as a cultural extravaganza but as a political intervention – another step towards making the idea of such a day reality.