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 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.