I am an independent journalist based in Lucknow, India. I have 10 years of experience in investigative reportage, with a focus on gender, health, arts, culture, and social justice, across multiple mediums such as writing, photography, audio-visual documentaries, illustrations, and paintings. I have contributed to The Times of India, People's Archive of Rural India, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera, SciDev.Net, Newslaundry, Dialogue Earth, IndiaSpend, Vogue Conde Nast Traveller, Article 14, Goya, The Locavore, Mentality, Migration Story, and others.

After working full-time with The Times of India in 2016, I have been freelancing for the past eight years, rigorously reporting on women's health and the impact of the Covid-19 nationwide lockdown on ordinary people. As part of the PARI series on women's health, I contributed 12 of the 50 stories published between 2020 and 2022 - the largest contribution by an individual to that unique, award-winning series. My reporting weaves together data, facts, and key insights from major reports, constantly moving between the village and the world, the particular and the universal.

Through illustrations, photographs, videos, and long-form reportage, I have highlighted the complex intersections of gender, climate change, human trafficking, and female foeticide for various national and international publications.

I have also reported extensively on rural distress, labour, migration, and food insecurity. One of my widely read stories for PARI documented the lives of workers at India's cremation grounds who, amid severe LPG shortages during the global crisis, began taking partially burnt wood from funeral pyres to use as firewood in their homes.

Another important report focused on the continuing collapse of the midday meal scheme in Uttar Pradesh, where millions of children depend on school meals for the bulk of their daily nutrition.

During the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, at a time when movement restrictions were severe and the pandemic was at its peak, I travelled hundreds of kilometres across Uttar Pradesh on my scooter to report stories from the ground.