is a journalist who covers politics, religion and human rights in South Asia. In the last 10 years, she has traveled across India, Sri Lanka and Nepal writing for Tehelka magazine, national daily The Hindu, travel magazine Outlook Traveller, The Caravan magazine, and news channel CNN-IBN. She also has a Masters in political journalism from Columbia University, New York. Among the awards she had received are those from the International Committee for the Red Cross for reporting on conflict in 2012, the Charles Wallace India Trust Writing Fellowship for 2013, the Prabha Dutt-Sanskriti fellowship for journalism in 2012, the Mumbai Press Club Award for environmental reporting in 2011, and the South Asian Journalists' Association Reporting Award in 2010. She has lived in and loved New Delhi, Chennai and New York. She is now a freelance writer based in Bangalore. She is working on a non-fiction book set in postwar Sri Lanka.