Inside India's sham trials for citizenship
VICE News, July 2019
A data-based investigation on the arbitrary process to determine Indian citizenship in Assam. Bengali speakers, particularly Muslims, are forced to scramble for proof by producing documentary evidence few possess.
Time,January 2019
A profile of two women who became the first to enter the Sabarimala temple since the Supreme Court revoked a longstanding ban preventing women of reproductive age from entering.
Statelessness of the most marginalised
HuffPost, August 2018
As a massive citizenship registry is underway in Assam, lakhs of the most marginalised women living in river island of the Brahmaputra risk becoming stateless - because they don't have paperwork.
Coorg's Bitter Brew (Video)
The Newsminute, January 2018
Bonded labour persists in some of India's biggest coffee estates. As full-time workers leave bondedness, there is a new influx of vulnerable migrant workers.
The price of a dream city (Video)
The Newsminute, December 2017
What does it mean for farmers of 29 villages to 'voluntarily' give their fertile lands to a city? And will the metropolitan dreams have space for the original residents? A video story on the dynamics of the voluntary land pooling model pioneered to build Amaravati, the capital of the newly divided state of Andhra Pradesh. Over 1 million views in a week!
** Not Without Our Daughters
The Hindu Sunday Magazine, March 2017
Over 60 young women in Trichy who grew up believing they were orphans discover the families they were taken away from.
Open, October 2016
Book review of Amma, by Vaasanthi, a biography of Tamil Nadu leader Jayalalithaa.
Key factors that gave Jayalalithaa her historic win in Tamil Nadu
The Wire, May 2016
The AIADMK comes to power on the strength of its traditional voter base
India's climate change promises dissonant with policies
The Economic Times, October 2015
Globally, India has pledged to cut 33-35% of its carbon intensity by 2030, but domestic strategy is to continue high-emission growth.
The Discontent of Hardik Patel
The Economic Times, August 2015
Why is the biggest reservation drama in India today led by a 22-year-old? Also, a revealing interview.
An ice-box, a live heart, and the man who drove and drove
Yahoo! Originals, July 2014
Chennai's traffic came to a standstill to allow a donor heart to reach a dying young woman for an urgent transplant. From hospital to hospital, a 45-min ride done in 13. As families, doctors and cops waited with bated breath, this is what happened.
The Economic Times, July 2015
How the law to prevent misuse of foreign funds is restricting human rights work in India
Seized Earth Campaign
Foreign Policy, May 2015
The Indian government is poised to add another chapter to the ugly saga of land acquisition in India
The New York Times, Jan 2015
An op-ed on increasing Buddhist chauvinism in Sri Lanka and its effect on the historic presidential election
Why Do they Protest When It's for their Own Good?
Yahoo Originals, Feb 2015
Across India, millions are dissenting against the Indian government’s push to remove checks and balances for acquiring land. Are the protestors ignorant?
Al Jazeera America, Dec 2014
Floods and poverty fuel rising teen marriages in the northeastern state of Assam, India
reporting
Rohini Mohan
Lost worlds: Almost 200 villages disappear for a dam
The Hindu, October 2019
As the Prime Minister celebrates his birthday at the full reservoir of the Sardar Sarovar dam, thousands of people are displaced by the rising river water, and without full rehabilitation even after 56 years, have nowhere to go.
New York Review of Books, December 2018
As millions arrive arrive in New Delhi for a massive protest, I report, while artist Molly Crabapple draws the India's farmers on the front lines of the fight against climate change.
Harper's, September 2018
Three years after a mob killed Mohammed Akhlaq alleging he ate beef, I go back to his family and villagers involved to unravel the template for hate perfected in Dadri, and flourishing in the close to 100 lynchings that have come after. (Shortlisted for The True Story Award, Switzerland.)
Inside the Foreigners Tribunals in Assam
HuffPost, August 2018
Foreigners Tribunals in the state of Assam declare thousands of poor illiterate people as foreigners over spelling mistakes. This story gets rare access to tribunal trials, and sees absurd justice being delivered.
The value of rice at one rupee
The Hindu, March 2018
The government’s pilot Direct Benefit Transfer project has come to mean wasted hours at the bank, missed work days and mounting expenses for residents of Nagri in central India.
"Imagine No Country Wants You"
The Wire, February 2018
India’s desire to expel the persecuted Rohingya is motivated by an insidious combination of security paranoia, nationalist politics and, some say, economic interests in Myanmar.
Series on garment workers in Bengaluru
Scroll.in, April-June 2017
Over 90% workers in the Bengaluru garment export hub are women. A four-part series on huge amounts of unpaid dues, battles over minimum wages, move from urban to rural migrant workers, and sexual harassment.
** India's crackdown on civil society
The New York Times, January 2017
The BJP government is using a Cold War era law to go after NGO money. Activists that have questioned the State are being specifically targeted.
Aripanthan: A Symbol of Today's Kashmir
The Wire, September 2016
As India focuses on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, it must understand the worrying ideas of militancy among the brutalised youth in the region.
**In Kashmir, doctors bear witness
The Wire, September 2016
Treating pellet injuries in the biggest mass blinding in the world, doctors bear witness to the unrest in Kashmir.
**Jeans, 'Love Drama' and the Electoral Spoils of Tamil Nadu's Caste Wars
The Wire, May 2016
What happens when political parties in Tamil Nadu demonise inter-caste couples for falling in love, and why hate wins votes
Indian migrants in Saudi Arabia
The Economic Times, November 2015
As Indian migrants slave in the Gulf countries, the Indian government is stuck choosing between workers' rights and remittances
**The good doctor goes to the market
The Economic Times, September 2015
What it means for healthcare when Dr. Devi Shetty, founder of India's largest low-cost hospital chain, goes for a public issue
The Economic Times, June 2015
About 4% of farmed land in Maharashtra is under sugarcane, but it consumes 71.5% of irrigated water, including wells. Here's how sugarcane production has worsened drought in Maharashtra
The Economic Times, June 2015
Madhya Pradesh bans eggs at school meals, once again pitting nutrition politics against science
Crop insurance during a hailstorm
The Economic Times, April 2015
As unseasonal rain causes crop failure in 14 states in India, a look at why crop insurance is not keeping up
Al Jazeera America, April 2015
Since just a year of coming to power, the Indian prime minister has rapidly diluted ecological protections in the name of economic development
Fishing for shrimp but netting jail time
Al Jazeera America, Sept 2014