A freelance journalist based in New Delhi, India, Nilanjana reports on India and South Asia for top international publications, including 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.
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.
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New internationalist magazine (COLUMN – VIEW FROM INDIA)
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Indian doctors protest herbal treatments being touted for COVID-19
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ONLINE
How India is scrambling to secure medical oxygen and save lives
National geographic online
TIME.com, may 7, 2021
TIME.com, May 4, 2021
India’s COVID-19 Crisis Is Spiraling Out of Control. It Didn’t Have to Be This Way
TIME MAGAZINE (COVER STORY), APRIL 28, 2021
How India’s second wave became the worst COVID-19 surge in the world
National Geographic, April 24, 2021
I couldn‘t find a hospital bed for my COVID-struck father in India. Days of frantic searching showed me how overwhelmed our health system is
BUSINESS INSIDER, April 27, 2021
Ep. 86 India’s Second Wave Tragedy
RTE News, April 29, 2021
Nilanjana Bhowmick on the Women Leading the Farmers’ Protests in India
LITHUB/THE QUARANTINE TAPES, APRIL 2021
APRIL 2021
‘I Cannot Be Intimidated. I Cannot Be Bought.’ The Women Leading India’s Farmers’ Protests
time magazine (cover story), mar 4, 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
BUSINESS INSIDER, 2021
BUSINESS INSIDER, 2021
Yes, the weather is getting worse – but we’re not suffering equally. Here’s what we can do
TED IDEAS, 2021
India Unleashes World’s Fastest Rollout But It’s Taking a ‘Crazy’ Risk on Homegrown Vaccine
THE DAILY BEAST, 2021
