Select Journalism

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 An account of my three-week stay with the Maoist insurgents in their camps, shortlisted for the 2015 Reuters' Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism.  

• A photo-feature  

The hidden story about the Bharatiya Janta Party's nexus with the Maoists

A Maoist commander's tragic romance with a school teacher

Inventing the 'urban Naxal' 

Naxalism, a social failure 

Life inside the 'liberated zone' of Dandakaranya

13 young and poor women died when they were forced to undergo sterilisation; winner of 2014 Ramnath Goenka journalism awards.

• Ten babies, each motherless
• Govt purchased medicines from a company it had blacklisted  
• Doctors continued tubectomies even after deaths  were reported 
• Medical lapses caused deaths

How a sitting Chief Minister and a former Chief Minister colluded to forge an election; winner of 2015 Ramnath Goenka awards. 

Ration cards meant for the poor being milked by the mighty    

17 villagers were killed when Indian security forces opened fire on them; winner of 2012 Ramnath Goenka awards for journalism. 

• No Maoists among the killed
• Stories of the dead 

The story of a veteran journalist wrongly convicted for sedition

The intel officers of Uttar Pradesh police on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

The Bharatiya Janta Party government purchased TV news

Congress party gave money to journalists for favorable coverage during elections