About All things Indian

India will be impossible to miss on the world map in a desperately altered, post-pandemic world and not just because 15% of the world’s population lives in India.

Indian stories become important when we consider that:

1) the richest 10% of Indians holds 73% of its wealth. 

2) about 200 ethnicities co-exist in its dense territorial boundaries (and almost never peacefully).

3) around 20,000 languages are spoken in India as native languages.

4) the country is also one of the most resource-starved.

5) importantly, it is being ruled by an elected authoritarian government since 2014. And democracy is dying a rather speedy death.

Journalists are trying to cut themselves loose off the State’s chokehold.

When reality is too stark to describe but chronicling it becomes inevitable, one resorts to fiction. This newsletter brings to you short stories based on real people I have seen, heard about and met in the field while reporting. 

Who publishes All Things Indian?

I am a human rights journalist, focusing on land rights, state repression, media freedoms and gender.

For the past decade, I have reported from over a 100 districts in India and 12 countries across the world (including three South Asian countries). I won international and national awards for my work in Kashmir and the central Indian forests.

As a Fulbright Scholar, I graduated from the Journalism School, Columbia University.

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