Most recently, I was a staff writer at TIME Magazine in London, where I covered international news and world affairs through a mix of quick takes, explainers, features, and profiles. My most recent stories look at the elections in the U.S., UK, and India; the War in Gaza; population and demography changes across Asia, and changemakers in artificial intelligence.

Previously, I was based in India as a Fellow for the Institute of Current World Affairs, where I wrote regular dispatches co-published with Slate covering COVID-19, politics, Hindu nationalism, and women and marginalized communities. In 2022, I received the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award from New York University for stories published in The New Yorker and TIME on Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s coal mine in the tribal state of Chattisgarh.

Before moving to India, I was based in New York, where I worked at The New York Times Magazine as an editorial assistant and at Reuters News Agency as a reporter.

My writing from India and elsewhere has appeared in the New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera, WIRED, National Geographic, and more. I’m a recipient of fellowships from the Thomson Reuters Foundation, The Global Reporting Center and Citizens UK, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the Global Migration Program at Columbia University, and the Australia-Korea Foundation. I have been a fact-checker for The Nation and received hostile environment and trauma reporting training. My first journalism stint was as a reporter for The Korea Herald, a daily newspaper in Seoul.

I specialized in investigative reporting at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and graduated with honors in Media and Communications and Asian studies at the University of Sydney. I was born in New Delhi and grew up in Sydney.