Aseem has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Out New York and The Courier Journal. He contributes to several Indian-American publications, including India Abroad, and its sister website, Rediff.com, and he writes a weekly New York column for Mumbai Mirror. His byline has appeared in India in The Telegraph, The Hindustan Times, The Times of India, India Today and the Indian edition of Cosmopolitan.

Over the years, Aseem has interviewed an assorted mix of people, especially in the arts -- Satyajit Ray, Om Puri, Mira Nair, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Ismail Merchant, Gurinder Chadha, Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai, Padma Lakshmi, James Ivory, Richard Gere, Glenn Close, Forest Whitaker, Costa Gavras, Gael Garcia Bernal, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Vikram Seth and Rohinton Mistry.

He has covered the South Asian community in North America from the mid-1980s, during the heyday of the Khalistan movement, to the hate crimes following the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Aseem holds an MS is Journalism from Columbia University and an MBA from Boston University.

Some stories:

Restoring Ray, Rediff.com, May 12, 2005
Bollywood Raises its Profile in the US, SAJA Forum, August 17, 2006
'Turtles' director won't let Kurdish refugees be forgotten, The Boston Globe, April 24, 2005
Between action and the art house, he found his place, The Boston Globe, August 15, 2004
Writers’ bloc: Brooklyn is pen station for desi writers, Time Out, New York ,March 25-April 1, 2004
The viewfinder: AMMI Curator Radha Vatsal seeks out the best of Indian cinema, Time Out, New York , March 25-April 1, 2004
The Widows of ‘Water,” Beliefnet.com,
Australian stabbed saving Indian friend, Rediff.com, September 18, 2001
‘We are in a limbo,’ Rediff.com, October 1, 2001
Essay on WTC, September 12, 2001