Pride and Pedicures
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Pride and Pedicures

Beauty parlours in small-town India were a refuge for women, where they walked in and shed everything, from their clothes to centuries of inhibition. But the advent of big, branded salons has encroached upon that safe space.
The Half Mother of Mowgli Girl
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The Half Mother of Mowgli Girl

When Neeta Newton, a nurse at Bahraich district hospital, first met the “Mowgli" girl, she would screech and bite. But Neeta knew this fight – to “humanise” her – would be a fight worth fighting.
A Day in the Life of Delhi’s Rohingya Refugee
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A Day in the Life of Delhi’s Rohingya Refugee

The controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill seeks to provide citizenship to persecuted minority refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, thousands of Rohingya Muslims, a minority in Myanmar who've fled genocide, continue to live in inhuman conditions across the country.
These Scars Don’t Fade
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These Scars Don’t Fade

Kashmir’s longest ever curfew has ended. The pellet guns are silent, but the wounds are not easy to heal. Mir Suhail’s cartoons bear testimony to the scars of his homeland.
My Daredevil Doppelgänger
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My Daredevil Doppelgänger

The “brand new” SIM card I’d got in April last year, belonged to another woman before me. She also had almost the same name. And it turned out that she led a rather colourful – unhinged – life.