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Sub-editor and journalist, Salar News | ex-BBC | ex-Reuters | bylines @vogueindia @openly @bbcindia @mint_lounge @scroll_in etc

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Independent journalist based in Kolkata. Formerly with Thomson Reuters, BBC World Service and The Telegraph-t2. Advisory Board Member of Future News Worldwide conference by the British Council.

By-lines in BBC, Openly by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Architectural Digest, Mint Lounge, Outlook India, Open Magazine, Deccan Chronicle, The Hindu, The Hindu BusinessLine and Feminism in India.

Official blogger of Jaipur Literature Festival in 2017 and 2019, and of Kolkata Literature Festival from…

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What steps can organisations take to welcome neurodivergent people to the workplace?

What steps can organisations take to welcome neurodivergent people to the workplace?

While neurodivergent individuals have a lot to contribute at work, they also have invisible disabilities that…

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Will the gender pay gap in Indian sports ever be bridged?

Will the gender pay gap in Indian sports ever be bridged?

While team sports in India are slowly starting to equalise wages for women players, are some of the measures …

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Indian LGBTQ+ groups push to widen access to HIV prevention pill

Indian LGBTQ+ groups push to widen access to HIV prevention pill

The daily HIV prevention pill PrEP can save lives - but many vulnerable LGBTQ+ Indians lack access India has …

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Same-Sex Marriage: 'One barrier less to live a fuller life'

Same-Sex Marriage: 'One barrier less to live a fuller life'

Vijin and Angel (names changed) Vijin (32) is a cis gay man from Kanniyakumari district in Tamil Nadu. He was…

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Do writers dream of AI text: How will AI affect human creativity, ethics, and copyrights?

Do writers dream of AI text: How will AI affect human creativity, ethics, and copyrights?

'AI-writing software is not solving problems that writers have - it's solving a problem that corporations hav…

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The apps making Indian monuments more accessible

The apps making Indian monuments more accessible

Kolkata-based Shital Ganeriwal enjoys learning about her city's history and culture. To get her fix of learni…

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‘Masculinity is always at loggerheads between two men’: What Rahul Singh explores in his debut novel

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Rahul Singh’s Unfolding may be a debut novel, but the self-assuredness of its prose belies this. Its protagonists are Ralph and Ojas, two men in an on-again, off-again relationship, and how their desires, insecurities, obligations and griefs affect their partnership. The life of the third protagonist, Ralph's household help Zubina, is intertwined with theirs as she watches it develop, sunder and come back together – and how this changes her own ideas of love.
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Interview: Sam Dalrymple Traces the Birth of Nations

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| Readers Digest Verified
Shattered Lands is a sweeping book. Its scope spans from Yemen to Burma, from Kashmir to Hyderabad. It would be impossible for the book to be otherwise, for the story it tells is equally expansive—the difficult, often extremely bloody tale of how many present-day west and south Asian countries were born. It is also a surprisingly emotional read for a subject that could have been extremely cut and dry.
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Sindhu Rajasekaran: “The idea of queerness is always in”

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The book is written in a very conversational manner – like the best-researched Instagram caption in the world! Why did you avoid opting for a more academic tone? Author Sindhu Rajasekaran (Sushant Desai/Aleph) That’s how I speak! The editor at Simon & Schuster, Megha Mukherjee, and I worked very closely throughout the book. I would write it for her to read, and then she’d ask me questions and say, tell me more about this, and then I would read (and write) more about that particular aspect.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

An internship for t2 - Telegraph India!

What does it mean to be a journalist?

It means to tell unheard stories in such a way that people care.

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

Yep - I was on the editorial board.
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