Nilanjana Bhowmick is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi, India, with bylines in TIME, the National Geographic Magazine, the Washington Post, TED Ideas, Al Jazeera, the New Scientist, the Daily Beast, Business Insider, the New Internationalist Magazine, etc etc.
Currently, Nilanjana works as an independent contractor, covering news and politics but her focus areas remain gender and social justice and the environment, especially climate change and its effects on different vulnerable communities across the world. She has also extensively covered the COVID-19 crisis and its fall outs on marginalised communities. Her story on protesting women farmers in India, made TIME Magazine’s cover in March 2021.
She began her career as a producer for the BBC’s flagship World Today program on BBC World Service Radio in London. Later she worked for a couple of years at one of India’s largest dailies. She was TIME Magazine’s South Asia correspondent between 2011-2015 and an editor on Agency EFE’s Asia desk between 2015 and 2018.
Nilanjana’s core skills are reporting, background research, editing and audio production (Radio and podcasting).
Nilanjana has won three international awards for her work on development and gender and was featured in the National Geographic Magazine’s iconic Women of Impact issue in 2019.
To discuss an assignment or commission an article email her here.
LATEST CLIPS:
‘I Cannot Be Intimidated. I Cannot Be Bought.’ The Women Leading India’s Farmers’ Protests
TIME, 2021
Father Beheads Daughter in One of The Most Dangerous Places for Women
THE DAILY BEAST, 2021
I Was a Victim of Sexual Harassment in India, Today I Rejoice
THE DAILY BEAST, 2021
Twitter ‘stood up’ to Trump but was ‘bullied’ in India, says a journalist who was caught up in the platform’s standoff with Modi
BUSINESS INSIDER, 2021
Experts feared India’s farming protests would be COVID superspreader events. Poverty, misinformation and a younger population may explain why cases plummeted instead
BUSINESS INSIDER
Yes, the weather is getting worse – but we’re not suffering equally. Here’s what we can do
TED IDEAS
India Unleashes World’s Fastest Rollout But It’s Taking a ‘Crazy’ Risk on Homegrown Vaccine
THE DAILY BEAST