Esha Mitra

Queer groups are stepping in to fill the void...

When cis-het couples don't pay tax on gifts they give each other, why should we, ask same-sex couples...

Sadre Alam went to war for India. Suprabuddha Sen's grandfather illustrated its first constitution. For decad…

A gargantuan task is underway to update the longest voter list in the world. This is India, and that's nearly…

It's easy to tell when it's smog season in New Delhi; the air gets darker, heavier and starts scratching the …

In the home he thought was safe, Mohammad Ismail pines for the daughter who has just been snatched from him a…

Mohammad Iqbal was working the nightshift at a power plant when he got a frantic call from his family saying …

Five years ago, a 13-year-old girl, the daughter of poor wage laborers from one of India's most marginalized …

US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including du…

Indian officials planned for two years to host the ‘largest congregation of humanity’ safely; tragedy unfolde…

After the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a hospital and medical college in West Bengal in August, tho…

A knife attack on a doctor in India has renewed an impassioned debate about whether enough is being done to p…

When authorities cracked down on a one-day gathering in Balochistan, they galvanized a movement against enfor…

In a central Indian state, tribes have been fighting to save their forest and homes from what's below them: c…

Nights are getting uncomfortably and dangerously hotter in India's capital as people in the world's most popu…

(As Producer) India's youth unemployment rate is among the highest in the world.

Esha Mitra, Freeland Journalist based in India & Dr. Jivanta Schottli, Assistant Professor in Indian Politics…

THE ESTABLISHED TRAVELS TO CHHATTISGARH’S HASDEO FOREST TO DIG DEEPER INTO WHAT AILS THE TRIBAL POPULATIONS F…

From a protest encampment in Islamabad, hundreds of women from Balochistan are demanding the return of their …

Behind the closed doors of bedrooms across India, the anachronistic opinions of a 17th Century jurist still g…

Multi-media masters thesis on the lives of declared foreigners in India's north-eastern state of Assam. (self…

After fleeing Sierra Leone to protect her twins from FGM, a refugee battles the odds to make a new life in Ir…

Ten years after a high-profile case galvanized protest in India, activists and family members see no improvem…

A spate of communal violence has revealed India's growing Hindu-Muslim division, with many accusing the gover…