He writes regularly for VICE, Salon, The Washington Post, New Statesman, Frieze, the London Review of Books, The Rumpus, and Media Diversified.
India Today' described it as "a meditative, haunting experiment in stream of consciousness" with "evocative, sweetly melancholic lines sprinkled through the length of the book".
In 2016, ThePigeonhole.com published his new novel, Starstruck, in serial form online, releasing a different chapter each day in each of which a protagonist has an unexpected, surreal, or comic encounter with a celebrity.
[2] Balasubramanyam writes regularly for newspapers and magazines including VICE, Salon, the Washington Post, New Statesman, Frieze, the London Review of Books, The Rumpus, and Media Diversified.
In 2019 Balasubramanyam's latest novel, Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss was published by Chatto & Windus (UK) and Dial Press (USA) to widespread critical acclaim.