Plant Matter
Could America's on-again, off-again relationship with weed's "sober" cousin be on for good?
Broccoli Magazine / May 2019 / History / [Pdf , 280 KB]
I'm a freelance writer and podcast producer presently based in New York. I've a masters in science writing from Columbia Journalism School ('13).
Could America's on-again, off-again relationship with weed's "sober" cousin be on for good?
Broccoli Magazine / May 2019 / History / [Pdf , 280 KB]
Few of India's abused women seek help. Social workers in Mumbai are trying to change that - one hospital at a time.
Al Jazeera English / August 2016 / Public Interest
Listening closely to hallucinated voices
Aeon Magazine / September 2015 / Science/Health
Reading between the lines of recent reports on worldwide traffic fatalities
Devex / February 2019 / Development
Tackling multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in one post-Soviet state, and beyond
Devex / April 2019 / Development
Why isn’t India doing more to protect its rare evolutionary record?
Nautilus Magazine / June 2016 / Science/Health
A pair of backwoods biologists and the creatures they love - and may lose
Orion Magazine / March 2016 / Environment / [Pdf , 128 KB]
India’s first mangrove protection agency is facing off against slumlords, polluters, and even its own government.
Hakai Magazine / February 2016 / Environment
Across the country, in the parks of Delhi and Bangalore, the seafronts of Mumbai and the lakes of Kolkata, lovers seek refuge from realities at home, which don't seem to keep pace with a fast-changing world
Indian Express / January 2011 / Public Interest
An intimate glimpse into the lives of Mumbai's 'invisible' homeless population
Guardian Development / June 2016 / Public Interest
India orders premier labs to pay their own way
Science Magazine / November 2015 / Science/Health / [Pdf , 197 KB]
A doctor known for a failed pig-heart-transplant attempts a comeback
Open Magazine / June 2012 / Profiles
One person dies in a road accident in India every four minutes – yet it seems little is being done to confront the causes.
Guardian Cities / June 2015
A suicide last month at a land reform protest comes alongside a recent rise in deaths in rural India. Is the bill the final straw for the country’s farmers?
Guardian Development / May 2015 / Public Interest
Inside the back end of social media, where secret digital janitors wipe clean gore and porn, staving off spammers, scammers and web-cam girls
GQ India / April 2015 / Technology
The empirical case against solitary confinement
Aeon Magazine / February 2014 / Public Interest
India just greenlit a £10 bn plan to make 100 smart cities and upgrade 500 towns. But is this plan inherently inequitable and exclusionary?
Guardian Cities / May 2015 / Public Interest
A ‘nomadic museum’ in the heart of Mumbai hopes to change attitudes towards the communities that live there
Guardian Development / March 2016 / Public Interest
In India we stigmatise loneliness and mental health issues. But science tells us that loneliness — even the commonplace, bedroom-variety kind — affects both health and mortality
Business Line Ink / June 2015 / Science/Health
Is it enough?
Yahoo Originals / February 2015 / Science/Health
How a new software has revolutionized tiger censuses, and monitoring wildlife management and crime
Quartz / December 2014 / Environment
A small start-up in Bangalore is trying to make diagnostic tests cheaper and better
WIRED / July 2015 / Technology
India needs to improve the rate and speed of detection
Quartz India / January 2015 / Science/Health
Is it a rare gift, or are we all on the synaesthetic spectrum?
Aeon Magazine / January 2015 / Science/Health
The 2005 flood that devastated Mumbai could just be the beginning, as more rain, more construction and more garbage make the city even more vulnerable to disaster. So why won’t anyone act?
Guardian Cities / November 2014 / Environment
The new government faces pressure both to cut emissions and ramp up energy access. For now, coal remains king.
National Geographic News / September 2014 / Environment
Activists are concerned by new government's lax line on conservation.
National Geographic News / July 2014 / Environment
It isn’t all about polar bears — some surprising species are already feeling the heat
The Verge / November 2013 / Environment
Across Africa, vultures face extinction, indifference
Scientific American / September 2013 / Environment / [Pdf , 592 KB]
Levels of manganese, a neurotoxin, in the cove and in a nearby creek were 10, 20 or nearly 30 times above the EPA's safety standard for tap water.
InsideClimate News / July 2013 / Public Interest
Microscopic predators join the hunt for wolves in the Rockies
Scientific American / July 2013 / Environment / [Jpg , 992 KB]
Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar has been in a solitary cell on death row for 15 years. He was sentenced under a now-defunct law that made confessions under torture admissible. His mercy plea just got rejected by the President.
Open Magazine / July 2011 / Public Interest
A visit to a district in Murshidabad where rape is grounds for marriage
Open Magazine / October 2011 / Public Interest
Martin Parr will pass up on wars and famines. He'd rather shoot supermarkets
Caravan Magazine / October 2010 / Profiles / [Pdf , 549 KB]
India's first transgender pastor
Open Magazine / April 2012 / Profiles
A doctor sentenced to life imprinsonment for internet pornography reinvents himself as a writer of pulp fiction
Motherland Magazine / February 2012 / Profiles / [Pdf , 7.49 MB]
A brutal kidnapping and murder in Tamil Nadu, and the encounter killing that followed
Indian Express Eye / November 2010 / Public Interest
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