Category: Selected Works

This article was originally published on Rest of World in July 2024. Below is a longer version. Creators from tribes in north-east India hope these YouTube videos will help break down harmful stereotypes that have kept them isolated from the rest of the country. In the video that made him famous, Apollos Kent is barefoot, […]

This article recounts testimonies of sexual assault survivors of the 2023 civil war in Manipur. It was originally published on Scroll.in in July 2023, and won the Laadli Media Award 2024 for gender sensitive reporting.[*Trigger Warning — contains graphic descriptions*] The video showing Kuki women being paraded naked by a mob has brought national attention to […]

This article won the PoleStar Foundation’s Excellence in Journalism Award 2019, and was originally published in The Indian Express in July 2018. For most of her life, Hima Das has faced life’s challenges by running. She has run in rage and joy, after brawls and victories, and as if her life depended on it. The story of […]

This article won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award 2020, and was originally published in The Indian Express in August 2020. Several British and Japanese soldiers died in the hills of Manipur during some of the fiercest battles of WWII. They do not lie there forgotten. A team of “battlefield diggers” has been scouring this terrain […]