I am a Delhi-based journalist – a writer and a photographer. Have worked with the mainstream media in Delhi, India, including with the India Today weekly magazine, The Times of India newspaper, The Financial Express newspaper and other publications.
Have worked as a Reporter with various newspapers in Delhi and have written extensively on the city, its urban environment, health & hospitals, land and water issues. I have also written on travel, tourism and done travel photography.
I have worked with the Rome-based Inter Press Service (IPS) and written for them from Scotland, Brazil and Spain on international development, the environment and people’s issues.
Am Head-Editorial & Emerging Media for an international development organisation and have written on development and NGO-related issues not only from India but also from Scotland, New York, Uruguay etc…
I am currently working on a number of photo-stories on people’s issues. Currently working on two books – a novel and a photo-book as well.
I have been awarded scholarships by the British Council to study at the Univ. of Westminster, Radio Netherlands to work on an Internet course and the Thomson Reuters Foundation to study Reporting on HIV/AIDS.
Some of my photo-work can be seen here:
International Women’s Day 2012:
http://futurechallenges.org/local/personal-grief-or-collective-pain-women-at-forefront-of-struggles/
A Home for Abandoned Children
http://photophilanthropy.org/gallery-posts/creating-a-home-for-abandoned-children/
Educating a Society
http://photophilanthropy.org/gallery-posts/educating-a-society
More links on news and activism are here:
Protests over Anna Hazare Arrest
http://www.demotix.com/news/793605/protest-india-gate-over-anna-hazare-arrest
Delhi Slutwalk
http://www.demotix.com/news/772727/slutwalk-campaign-comes-delhi
Burmese on World Refugee Day
http://www.demotix.com/news/731365/burmese-refugees-and-activists-rally-world-refugee-day-new-delhi
Tibetans on Hunger Strike
http://www.demotix.com/news/699359/tibetans-hunger-strike-delhi-india
