Published Work
When the stomach burns: 80 years on, memories from the famine kitchens of Bengal (The Indian Express/October 2024)
Why the Indian star tortoise is smuggled across the India-Bangladesh border (The Indian Express/September 2024)
In India, an elephant death brings ‘hula parties’ under the scanner (The Indian Express/August 2024)
To combat high rates of child drowning deaths in the Sundarbans, India gets its first pond-based swimming pool (The Indian Express/July 2024)
In India, for the first time, an indigenous scholar’s digital archive is documenting rare Santali manuscripts (The Indian Express/July 2024)
Indian Elections: In a unique constituency meant for Scheduled Tribes, indigenous voters are key to winning polls (The Indian Express/May 2024)
In South Korea, remembering Rabrindranath Tagore, for inspiring a generation of freedom fighters (The Indian Express/May 2024)
Indian Elections: A ‘master plan’ to tackle devastating floods could prove key to who wins polls in one constituency (The Indian Express/April 2024)
In run-up to India’s contentious elections, Mir Jafar’s tainted legacy still haunts descendants of the 18th century ruler (The Indian Express/April 2024)
What’s in a name? For Tangail weavers, a history of a brutally divided land, its people and identity (The Indian Express/March 2024)
In rural India, K-pop dreams are bursting at the seams, but no roads lead to South Korea (The Indian Express/March 2024)
A North Korean defector speaks of her walk to freedom (The Indian Express/February 2024)
How a 27-year-old is using social media to promote an indigenous language (The Indian Express/January 2024)
In Bengal, a tribal community dependant on forests for survival learns how to cope with changing times (The Indian Express/January 2024)
India-Maldives Relations: Why PM Modi’s Lakshadweep visit has the Maldives’ social media and govt officials up in arms against India (The Indian Express/January 2024)
In the outskirts of the Sundarbans, shrimp farms are turning to mangroves to go organic (The Indian Express/November 2023)
Cook. Clean. Care. Repeat. The unrelenting lives of Indian women (The Indian Express/November 2023)
How a statue of Muthuramalinga Thevar came to be worshipped in Kolkata (The Indian Express/October 2023)
In a Bengal village, a unique tradition of creating Durga on pat (The Indian Express/October 2023)
Phoney love: In Sundarbans, a call, sweet nothings and a descent into sex trade (The Indian Express/October 2023)
Under President-Elect Mohamed Muizzu, the path forward in India-Maldives ties (The Indian Express/October 2023)
In West Bengal, four villages are preserving a culture of generations-old indigenous boat races (The Indian Express/September 2023)
Why the Maldives elections hold high stakes for India (The Indian Express/September 2023)
As West Bengal struggles to turn the right page, its libraries are facing a slow decay (The Indian Express/August 2023)
On a hill in South Korea, a memorial to an Indian diplomat (The Indian Express/July 2023)
The mangroves of Kolkata are a sign that the city’s environment is changing (The Indian Express/April 2023)
Nolen gur, West Bengal’s beloved seasonal food stares at an uncertain future (The Indian Express/March 2023)
In rapidly changing times, Santals in West Bengal rethink how to preserve religious and cultural practices (The Indian Express/February 2023)
In Fiji, amidst a Hindi conference, a community ponders complexities of language and identity (The Indian Express/February 2022)
Along the India-Bangladesh border, a first-of-its-kind floating border outpost with women constables (The Indian Express/December 2022)
What a teacher’s Sahitya Akademi award for Santali poetry means for students at an Adivasi school in West Bengal (The Indian Express/November 2022)
In India, over 64,000 people die of snake bites each year—the highest globally (The Indian Express/November 2022)
A Diwali regular, Bengal’s tiny leafhopper isn’t seen in big numbers anymore. Where have the ‘shyama poka’ gone? (The Indian Express/October 2022)
In West Bengal, marine strandings of endangered horseshoe crabs are increasing (The Indian Express/August 2022)
Remembering KK: When he performed at a unique concert in North Korea (The Indian Express/June 2022)
Maldives is preserving its pre-Islamic heritage, with some help from India (The Indian Express/May 2022)
In Croatia, a Roma conference ponders whether the community can be termed Indian diaspora (The Indian Express/April 2022)
In West Bengal’s Birbhum, a unique community museum that archives Santal history and culture (The Indian Express/April 2022)
In their own language: a school in West Bengal’s Birbhum for Santal children (The Indian Express/March 2022)
Translated into Ol Chiki for first time, Santhals get to read India’s Constitution in their own script (The Indian Express/March 2022)
The mystery of Maldives’ dying mangroves and India’s role in the quest to save them (The Indian Express/February 2022)
For endangered Batagur Baska turtles, Sundarban conservation project is reason for hope (The Indian Express/January 2022)
How Indian barbers cut a monopoly for themselves in faraway Brunei (The Indian Express/January 2022)
Belarus-Poland border crisis has become a roadblock for illegal Indian migrants in Europe (The Indian Express/December 2021)
In Taipei, Indian food makes for good business (The Indian Express/December 2021)
Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict has impacted an unlikely group—hundreds of Indian professors (The Indian Express/December 2021)
Operation Cactus: How India helped Maldives thwart coup bid backed by Lankan militants (The Indian Express/November 2021)
After crackdown on cattle-smuggling, Indo-Bangladesh border sees spike in wildlife trafficking (The Indian Express/October 2021)
In Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’, an insight into desperate lives of South Korea’s South Asian migrant workers (The Indian Express/October 2021)
South African riots and a town that took to vigilantism (The Indian Express/September 2021)
How India’s independence movement influenced Korea’s struggle for freedom from Japanese rule (The Indian Express/August 2021)
Explained: What is behind the ‘India Out’ campaign in the Maldives? (The Indian Express/July 2020)
As Mount Nyiragongo erupts, Indians join thousands fleeing Goma to Rwanda and an uncertain future (The Indian Express/May 2021)
‘Gandhi statue desecration in Armenia a result of lack of understanding of Indian history’ (The Indian Express/May 2021)
Balagarh discovers TMC’s new election bet — Dalit author Manoranjan Byapari (The Indian Express/April 2021)
Stranded in paradise: Indian tourists with Covid-19 exposure stare at huge costs, extended stays in Maldives (The Indian Express/April 2021)
Indians in South Korea say Seoul’s Covid-19 testing order on foreigners lacks clarity (The Indian Express/March 2021)
Seeking asylum, 4 Myanmar police officers cross Indo-Myanmar border at Mizoram (The Indian Express/March 2021)
Why are Indians head-over-heels in love with Korean dramas? (The Indian Express/February 2021)
For Burmese-Indians, latest coup rekindles fears of times when community became easy target (The Indian Express/February 2021)
Recovering from lockdown, Myanmar coup deals a fresh blow to Moreh traders (The Indian Express/February 2021)
In South Korea, university students are fighting to save one of country’s oldest Hindi language programmes (The Indian Express/January 2021)
South Korean victims of wartime sexual slavery say fight not over (The Indian Express/January 2021)
Adulterated honey: Sweet success for Sundarbans’ Moulis as buyers make a beeline for their organic stuff (The Indian Express/December 2020)
Amid Ethiopia war, stranded Indians unwilling to return over job concerns (The Indian Express/November 2020)
Under blue Silicon Valley skies, Indian-Americans find no algorithm can help choose between Biden and Trump (The Indian Express/October 2020)
As film turns the light on women priests, Bengal blows the conch on change (The Indian Express/October 2020)
In midst of Nagorno-Karabakh clashes, Indians are backing Armenia, on the ground, and online (The Indian Express/October 2020)
Among those lining up to fight in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian youth with a strong Kolkata connect (The Indian Express/October 2020)
Amid Nagorno-Karabakh clashes, an Indian restaurant is helping displaced Armenians (The Indian Express/October 2020)
In baseball-obsessed South Korea, South Asian immigrants take guard with cricket (The Indian Express/October 2020)
Under a cloud: Meet Kolkata’s storm chasers who document extreme weather (The Indian Express/September 2020)
The unseen hospital staff who do the Covid-19 jobs nobody wants (The Indian Express/August 2020)
Borders melt for Indian patients seeking treatment in Nepal’s snakebite treatment centres (The Indian Express/July 2020)
70 years of the Korean War: India’s lesser-known role in halting it (The Indian Express/June 2020)
70 years of the Korean War: Why Ethiopia jumped into a distant war and remained unvanquished (The Indian Express/June 2020)
As yeast becomes scarce and flour supply dwindles, half of Kolkata’s bread units shut down (The Indian Express/April 2020)
For India’s distressed farmers, a little bit of help on Twitter (The Indian Express/April 2020)
Lockdown in Kolkata: For city’s unseen residents, these are uncertain times (The Indian Express/March 2020)
In heart of Seoul, a North Korea-themed bar that walks the line on legality (The Indian Express/January 2020)
The Real Prince of Awadh (The Indian Express/December 2019)
Death of Korean pop star Sulli highlights South Korea’s toxic fan culture (The Indian Express/October 2019)
Khasi director wins big at Busan International Film Festival 2019 (The Indian Express/October 2019)
Photo Essay: South Korean protesters call for ouster of justice minister handpicked by President Moon Jae-in (The Indian Express/October 2019)
No, Kumartuli’s Durga idols are not always made by men (The Indian Express/October 2019)
How Trinca’s of Kolkata kept a live music industry alive for decades (The Indian Express/September 2019)
Inside the secret world of Indonesia’s Jewish community (Haaretz/April 2019)
Hebrew edition: ביקור במדינה עם הכי הרבה
מאמינים בחשאי (Haaretz/April 2019)
Kim-Trump summit is good business for Hanoi shops (The Indian Express/March 2019)
The battle to save Kolkata’s crumbling heritage buildings (Al Jazeera English/February 2019)
NYC considers banning performances by exotic animals (Metro New York/ October 2016)
NYC’s cabbies can steer you to the most authentic South Asian eateries (Metro New York/ October 2016)
Arrested in Iran:The Story of Roxana Saberi’s Imprisonment (The Brooklyn Ink/Dec 2011)
OWS Disperses to Plan Day of Action (The Brooklyn Ink/Nov 2011)
Brooklyn Bridge Park First to Cross Over to Free WiFi (The Brooklyn Ink/Nov 2011)
Job Hunting Hard for Long-Time Hospital Worker (The Brooklyn Ink/Nov 2011)
Crown Heights March to End Gun Violence (The Brooklyn Ink/Oct 2011)
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