Hima Das: The Girl Who Chases Time (Profile)
A profile of sprinter Hima Das published as the cover story for Sunday Magazine, Eye
The Indian Express / July 2018
Journalist | The Indian Express | Assam | tora.agarwala@gmail.com | @toramatix
A profile of sprinter Hima Das published as the cover story for Sunday Magazine, Eye
The Indian Express / July 2018
A ground report on how the children of Assam have been affected by issues of identity and citizenship in the backdrop of the National Register of Citizens.
The Indian Express / February 2020
A family torn apart by detenction on account of being suspected ‘foreigners’ in Assam
The Indian Express / August 2018
They are young, full of dreams, and are calling themselves the ‘Miyas’ of Assam. What does poetry, identity and the NRC offer them?
The Indian Express / July 2019
A report from Assam's tea gardens set around a hooch tragedy that killed 150 people
The Indian Express / March 2019
The metamorphosis of Guwahati, the capital of Assam from a small town to a big city. (A cover story about urbanisation, moral policing and the media for The Indian Express's Sunday Magazine)
The Indian Express / September 2015
The story of Village Rockstars: Dohgaon Kalardiya is just another village in Assam, with a cast of dreamers and doers. Now, one filmmaker and a band of children are telling its story to the world
The Indian Express / October 2018
Assam Floods 2019: A jail gets flooded. The college opposite is converted into a jail. The inmates are shifted. A rapist escapes. A manhunt begins. The rapist is caught. And the inmates go back to the jail.
The Indian Express / July 2019
Floods might be as old as Assam, but fighting a pandemic in knee-deep water is a whole new challenge for even the most seasoned health worker.
The Indian Express / July 2020
Is being Assamese a question of language, religion, ethnicity, or citizenship? As the NRC exercise scratches these divides in the state's complicated history and geography, another legislation, Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, has prised open another split.
The Indian Express / July 2018
A man disappears from a Manipur village, and is returned to it 40 years later by YouTube. But is homecoming the fairy tale it is made out to be?
The Indian Express / June 2019
Bereft of a single movie theatre, how Mizoram produces and consumes its films: loud speaker announcements, door-to-door ticket sales, dubbing and directors who double up as producers, distributors and even actors.
The Indian Express / September 2018
A video story following the a first time woman voter in Assam
The Indian Express / April 2019
A front page ground report on the 2019 Assam floods
The Indian Express / July 2019
An personal essay on living in small spaces
The Indian Express / November 2019
Rains in Majuli are not ordinary. With every downpour, the island loses a little bit of itself to the river — A travel piece
The Indian Express / May 2018
Assistant Reporter for a film on Birubala Rabha, a crusader against the practice of witch hunting prevalent in parts of rural Assam.
The New York Times / February 2016
If you were the youngest in a pack of cousins, summer holidays were the best of times and the worst of times. Till you discovered a library of old books. (A personal narrative for the "Nostalgia" special of The Indian Express's Sunday Magazine)
The Indian Express / June 2016
Assam’s 80-year-old mobile theatre industry is under fire for rapidly shedding its traditional identity to embrace the contemporary. But it continues to thrive on popular demand. (A piece for the Theatre Special of Hindu's Saturday weekend magazine)
The Hindu / February 2016
For the Style Issue of Architectural Digest, a long-form piece about the set design, theatrics and architecture of the most dramatic runways in India and across the world.
Architectural Digest, Conde Nast India / September 2016
A travelogue from Mawlynnong, believed to be the cleanest village in Asia. (For the annual Travel Issue of The Indian Express's Sunday Eye Magazine)
The Indian Express / May 2012
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