Essay : Grief and The Freedom Of Forgiving
My essay published in the anthology titled 'Our Freedoms: Essays and Stories from India’s Best Writers'
Juggernaut Books / January 2021
Bilingual Writer and Independent Reporter. Author of 'No Nation For Women-(http://amzn.to/35hjZDv). Covers gender, politics and social justice in South Asia. Winner of the 2019 Chameli Devi Jain Award For Outstanding Woman Journalist, the 2015 Knight International Journalism Award, the 2014 Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism, the 2013 Red Ink Award for Excellence in Indian Journalism, 2012 Press Council of India’s Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism and the 2011 Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Indian Journalism. Finalist for the 2014 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist from the Developing World Awards and the 2013 German Development Media Awards. Three times recipient of the Laadli Media Award for consistent writing on women issues. Was a 2015-16 SAJP Chevening fellow and a writer-in-residence at the Sangam House writing residency, Bangalore in the summers of 2015. Was also selected as a grantee of the International Women Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists in 2015. ‘No Nation for Women -Reportage on Rape from India, the World’s Largest Democracy’, my first book, was published by Simon & Schuster. It was short-listed for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2019, Tata Literature Live Awards 2019 and the Prabha Khaitan Women’s Voice Award 2019.
My essay published in the anthology titled 'Our Freedoms: Essays and Stories from India’s Best Writers'
Juggernaut Books / January 2021
Report on how the proposed changes will alter the face of Indian Mining.
BBC / October 2020
Links to 5 part series on Bihar Floods (Flood Diary links at the bottom of this report)
BBC / August 2020
reported from 7 districts of Eastern UP
BBC / July 2020
Ground Report from Poorvanchal, Uttar Pradesh
BBC / July 2020
Ground Report : Worst Hit Front line workers are loosing their lives.
BBC / May 2020
A profile of Hindi Writer Nirmal Verma as a letter writer.
BBC / April 2020
Long report on the ongoing mental Health Crisis in Kashmir
BBC / February 2020
A short documentary on the lives and times of Hindi Writer Krishna Sobti
BBC / January 2020
A long profile of Hindi Writer Krishna Sobti
BBC / January 2020
Part one of the 3 part Video series on Narmada River Crisis
BBC / September 2019
Part two of the Three part series on Narmada River Crisis
BBC / September 2019
Part three of the 3 part Video series on Narmada River Crisis
BBC / September 2019
Short Video Doc Report on NRC crisis
BBC / August 2019
Report on the people who lost their lives during the NRC crisis
BBC / July 2019
Video Report from Muzaffarpur Bihar
BBC / June 2019
Second Long Report on the Heath Crisis in Muzaffarpur, Bihar
BBC / June 2019
Ground Report from Muzaffarpur
BBC / June 2019
A profile of Jyotiraditya Sindhiya
BBC / May 2019
Election Reporting 2019 - On Narmada, a video report is embedded in-between.
BBC / April 2019
Election Reporting 2019 Lead piece of the 5 part Gangs of Poorvanchal Series
BBC / February 2019
Profile of Mukhtar Ansari
BBC / February 2019
This article has links to all my important reports published in 2018 in The BBC. Most was this the submission that led to Chameli Devi Jain Award of 2019.
BBC / December 2018
Ground report From Sardarnagar, Gorakhpur.
BBC / January 2018
Remembering Hindi Writer Nirmal Verma
The Caravan Magazine / April 2017
The age of ABVP
The Caravan / October 2017
The nightmarish struggle to bring Asaram to justice: An investigative profile.
The Caravan Magazine / April 2017
The murder of Rajdeo Ranjan and the sordid reality of small-town journalism in India
The Caravan / December 2016
The Father Of Shahabuddin’s Victims Speaks Out On His Release From Jail
The Caravan / September 2016
Jitan Ram Manjhi and the politics of caste
The Caravan Magazine / July 2015
A personal account of my City Bhopal. And thirty years of the Gas Disaster.
Yahoo Originals. / December 2014
You are 13, kidnapped from your street along with three friends, drugged, raped, and dumped 150km away. What appeal does a young Dalit girl from Bhagana, Haryana bring to a nation that thinks it has now become sensitive to sexual assault?
Yahoo Originals. / September 2014
Finalist of Thomson Foundation's Young Journalist of the Year Award (2014) for Foreign Press Association (FPA) London 's Annual Media Awards.
Yahoo News, Originals. / June 2014
Bihar’s Patliputra constituency has two shiny, new candidates. One is Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharti. The other is Indu Bhusan, the son of Brahmeshwar Singh, the ‘Butcher of Bihar’. Bhusan says his new party has nothing to do with the Dalit-hati
Yahoo News (Originals) / April 2014
Winner of 2014 Kurt Schork Memorial Award in International Journalism. Also, Finalist of Thomson Foundation's Young Journalist of the Year Award (2014) for Foreign Press Association (FPA) London 's Annual Media Awards.
Yahoo News (Originals) / March 2014
In the third and final part of her series on policewomen, our writer looks away from central India. Policewomen elsewhere in India too face danger in the shape of their peers and the mighty hydra called The Department. Is change possible?
Yahoo News (Originals) / March 2014
After meeting women constables in rural Jharkhand, our writer heads to the state capital Ranchi to meet the officers. Inspired by a television show, inspired by dreams of justice, inspired by the thought of a government job, recruited out of sports teams,
Yahoo News (Originals) / March 2014
Winner of the 2014 Kurt Schork Memorial Award in International Journalism.
Tehelka Magazine / September 2013
Winner of 2014 Kurt Schork Memorial Award in International Journalism. Also, Finalist of Thomson Foundation's Young Journalist of the Year Award (2014) for Foreign Press Association (FPA) London 's Annual Media Awards.
Tehelka Magazine / September 2013
A network of about 2000 placement agencies in Delhi is involved in trafficking girls from Assam, Jharkhand and Odisha on a daily basis, pushing them into a world of slavery and sexual exploitation
Tehelka Magazine / November 2013
Winner of 'The Red Ink Award For Excellence in Indian Journalism' under the 'Crime-Investigation' category (2012). Also, Short-listed for German Media Award in International Journalism 2013.
Tehelka Magazine. / August 2012
Second part of the investigation 'Where do the Missing Children of Delhi Go?'. Winner of the 'Red Ink Award' for being the Best 'Crime-Investigation' of 2012. Shortlisted for German Media Development Award' 2013
Tehelka Magazine / August 2012
The father of the girl who alleged sexual assault against Asaram Bapu reveals the story behind the assault and the trauma faced by his family
Tehelka Magazine / September 2013
Because 'We are not the footnotes to someone else’s life'.
The Ladies Finger / February 2015
Some have accused the film makers of portraying the state in a bad light. So what?
Scroll.in / March 2015
This story is about the plight of those people from the Khalsa Panth who according to some accounts, took to weapons manufacturing on the order of the 10th Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh, in order to defend the country. Even three centuries later, they are
Tehelka Magazine / August 2012
Police indifference, panchayat interference and a regressive mindset ensure that rapes in Haryana will never stop,
Tehelka Magazine / October 2012
An 8 page investigation published as a cover story in Tehelka Hindi exposing the multi-layered and widespread murky businesses of conducting illegal clinical trials on uninformed patients.
Tehelka Hindi / March 2011 / [Pdf , 6.39 MB]
This four part long investigation is the Winner of the 'National' as well as 'Northern Region' Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity given for the 'Best Investigative Story' of 2011-12.
Tehelka Hindi magazine / November 2011 / [Pdf , 9.21 MB]
Winner of Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award (2011). Horrifically ugly stories of minor young girls being burnt down alive after being raped in Bundelkhand.
Tehelka Hindi Magazine / May 2011
Cover Story on the organised criminal gangs of Children in Delhi exposing how adult criminals are systematically pushing vulnerable children into Organized Crime.
Tehelka Hindi Magazine / June 2013
A ground report explaining why rapes are never going to end in Haryana.
Tehelka Hindi Magazine / October 2012 / [Pdf , 2.48 MB]
Investigation into the brutual rape of another 5 year old Girl child in Delhi.
Tehelka Hindi Magazine. / June 2013
My first extended scene in fiction
Jankipul.com - A Hindi Literary Webzine. / March 2015
An opinion piece on multiple meanings and consequences of Love for Indian Women.
Tehelka Hindi Magazine / February 2012
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