Journalist and Writer
On 13 December 1971, Baltistan was partitioned once more, dividing villages between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control. Half a century later, Balti families, still separated by politics, are building bridges through music and verse.
Hindustan Times Mint / December 2020
From Islamophobia to state repression in Kashmir and caste atrocities, while covid-19 made everything feel transformative, one thing remained firmly rooted—injustice.
Hindustan Times Mint / December 2020
United in the longing for a land their people once called home, a new generation of Tibetans is bringing fresh perspectives as they contest elections for the Parliament in Exile.
Hindustan Times Mint / January 2021
With the Election Commission’s plans to give NRIs the right to vote by postal ballot, the diaspora’s dream of being part of the electoral process may finally come true. Lounge looks at what it could mean for Indian politics.
Hindustan Times Mint / January 2021
For this 28 year-old award-winning reporter, growing up amidst conflict has made him more empathetic and fearless. An Emmy nomination is just the start, he is unafraid to dream big and take risks.
Hindustan Times Mint / October 2020
Over the last few years, students across the country have mobilized in great numbers, with their identity front and centre, to fight for their own ideas of freedom.
Hindustan Times Mint / August 2020
The Kashmiri photojournalist has received the Anja Niedringhaus Courage In Photojournalism Award and been booked under the UAPA. She continues to tell stories from one of the most militarized zones in the world.
Hindustan Times Mint / June 2020
This anti-nuclear activist and photojournalist from Jharkhand’s Jadugoda is fighting for the rights of his people and making their stories heard
Hindustan Times/Mint Lounge / July 2020
As relations between India and China turn tense after the Galwan Valley stand-off, and the coronavirus pandemic fuels an anti-China sentiment, the Chinese-Indian community is caught in the cross fire
Hindustan Times/Mint Lounge / July 2020
Collecting covid-19 samples is a high-risk job. Meet the swab technicians who silently endure the dangers and discrimination of being coronavirus warriors
Hindustan Times/Mint Lounge / June 2020
They are the ones who have seen it all—Partition, riots, a famine. Now, as covid-19 casts a pall of fear and gloom, these men and women in their 80s reveal what survival really means
Hindustan Times/Mint Lounge / June 2020
With over 20 clinical trials for convalescent plasma therapy to treat coronavirus across the world, Lounge speaks to those geared up to begin trials in India, doctors and donors who are leading from the front
Hindustan Times/Mint Lounge / May 2020
How do these abuses of power by RWAs rest with anecdotal instances of kindness? Has there been greater democracy and participation by residents during this crisis? Has a new sociological dynamic—even if it is temporary—been created within local bodies?
Hindustan Times/Mint / April 2020
Women have been at the forefront in violence-hit north-east Delhi, providing or coordinating relief and rehabilitation efforts
Hindustan Times/Mint Lounge / March 2020
67% of the world’s documented shutdowns took place in India last year. I report on the anatomy of a network disruption and the impact it has on lives and livelihoods.
Cover Story/Mint Lounge / December 2019
Before the communication shutdown, things were looking up for young Kashmiri entrepreneurs. Now, with funds drying up and no internet, more than 100 startups in the valley have had to put the brakes on their dreams.
Hindustan Times/Mint Lounge / October 2019
Amidst conflicting media reports, a medical crisis, and month-long communication blockade, Kashmiris outside the valley are raising their voices, helping each other and letting the world know what it is being unable to access—their own truth.
Hindustan Times Mint / September 2019
Ground report: The faculty at the university has stood by their students against both CAA and police brutality. Professors have provided refuge, and made sure their students are safe even at great risk to their own physical safety.
Hindustan Times Mint Lounge / December 2019
Twenty years after the 1999 war, locals and the administration are working to dislodge the war narrative that has long stuck like shrapnel to this district in western Ladakh
Cover Story/Mint Lounge / July 2019
As the Tibetan community in India exercises the right to vote in the general election, what do they expect from the government they hope to see in power?
Hindustan Times Mint/cover story / April 2019
A result of corrupt corpse clerks, death photography really took off on Varanasi's Manikarnika Ghat in 1999-2000. But with smartphones and the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor project, the profession may be nearing its own demise.
Hindustan Times Mint / June 2019
Students, parents and teachers were the biggest symbols of resilience as they managed to tackle the board exams, which marked the end of a five month shut down in the state after the death of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani.
India Today / December 2016
The women of Badgam, a village near Kargil, have witnessed three India-Pakistan wars and lived through the trauma of severed families
Hindustan Times Mint / February 2019
Dislocated and displaced several times after Partition, the residents of Latoo have learned an invaluable lesson: to survive you need to be self-reliant.
Scroll.in / December 2018
#MintLongStory on Leprosy, the disease that plagues India and its biases. It's not highly contagious, is 100% curable, and yet the religious, social and legal stigma associated with it persists, with over 100 discriminatory provisions on our statute books
Hindustan Times Mint / March 2019
This group of largely urban, upper caste millennials have opted for what they perceive to be a pragmatic middle path between the Left and the Right.
Scroll.in / February 2019
An increasing number of young, upwardly mobile millennials are attending satsangs and surrendering to the idea of a guru.
Hindustan Times Mint/Cover story / February 2019
The cult of keto is so grand that people actually identify as keto “evangelists”. But where there are evangelists, can critics be far behind?
Hindustan Times Mint/cover story / April 2019
When Shavo Dorjee witnessed Jamphel Yeshi’s self-immolation, he didn’t know he’d be playing a character based on the anti-China protester a few years later.
Vice India / July 2018
Nilam Katara on what kept her going for 14 years as she fought to bring her 23-year-old son's murderers to justice.
India Today / November 2016
Whether it's to do with the influx of porn is debatable, but the boundary between what is 'natural' and what is not is shifting fast in Indian erotic life
India Today / March 2018
A growing number of well-to-do urban women are engaging doulas and midwives in an effort to experience a more traditional childbirth.
HT Mint / March 2019
From fairs to galleries and everywhere in between, art in Paris is ubiquitous.
India Today / January 2018
"Insta-poet" Rupi Kaur is at the forefront of a movement embodying short, raw verse, with arbitrary line-breaks and quick, often gut-punch-packing compositions.
India Today / September 2017
With altruistic surrogacy, outlawing porn and sexuality, government has become the most unsettling voyeur.
India Today / August 2016
There are a few parallels one can draw between the Aziz Ansari incident and Mahmood Farooqui case, experientially, if not legally.
India Today / January 2018
Join me in a sound that is both my war cry and how the state responds to crimes against women: meh.
India Today / February 2016
A demand for accountability from powerful men? Have you ever heard of something so bizarre?
News Central 24X7 / October 2018
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