India

Today Maoist insurgents keen to exploit the state's enduring weaknesses stalk the Hindu heartland...

Jason Motlagh
Grantee

Abhishek Kumar is a senior fact-checking journalist and researcher at Alt News, specializing in information verification, platform accountability, and online investigation.

Soumashree Sarkar is a news editor at The Wire.in.

Supriya Vohra is an independent journalist based in Goa, India. She writes about the marine environment, and problems plaguing India’s fishers. She examines the intersection of science and policy from...

January 9, 2026

Saumya Khandelwal is based in New Delhi, India. Khandelwal is a photojournalist who has contributed to TIME, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal...

Yaqut Ali is a freelance bilingual video journalist and reporter specializing in crime, conflict, and political affairs in India. A multiple-time RedInk Award nominee, he has worked with BBC News and...

Adil Rashid is an independent journalist in India. His work has been published in The Guardian, FiftyTwo, The Caravan, and WIRED, among other Indian and international publications.

Arshu John is an independent journalist who focuses on law and politics. He previously worked for Indian newspaper The Caravan for five years, and prior to that, as a criminal lawyer in Delhi courts...

Vidya Krishnan has been reporting on health and science in India for nearly 20 years. She completed her master's at the School of Oriental and African Studies London University in 2011. After...

March 5, 2025

Raihana Maqbool is an independent journalist based in Indian-administered Kashmir, covering Kashmir and India for the last seven years. Maqbool covers the underreported issues from Kashmir with a...

Jayati Ghosh has taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and has been an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since January 2021. She has advised...