I’m an independent journalist and children’s author based in Siliguri, in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal. I report as a correspondent for Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders).
My work spans politics, culture, media, social justice, and the environment, focusing on India and its neighbours. Over the years, my bylines have appeared in Scroll.in, The Wire, Mint Lounge, Forbes India, The Hindu, Himal Southasian, Fountain Ink, Nikkei Asia, The New York Times (India Ink blog), The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, World Politics Review, and The Diplomat, among others.
I began my career in mainstream newsrooms, including The Telegraph and The Economic Times. I’ve been fortunate to hold international fellowships—as a Reuters Fellow at the University of Oxford (2012–13), and as a fellow of the International Journalists’ Programme (Germany, 2010).
In 2020, I received the Laadli Media & Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity for my longform reportage on the lives of women in the closed tea gardens of north Bengal. I have also been a National Foundation for India fellow, reporting on sexual abuse and systemic gaps in India’s legal framework. I am the author of a children’s nonfiction biography, Ganju Lama: Sikkim’s Hero in War and Peace.
Alongside reporting, I conduct media-literacy and journalism workshops, moderate conversations around books and ideas, and co-curate Foothill Notes, an independent literary meet in Siliguri.
I contributed to the making of India’s first-ever trilingual glossary of media terms—in English, Hindi, and Nepali—as part of a team of academics and media professionals.
Mother. Wife. Sister.
Always a storyteller.