Based in Madurai, South India, I'm a freelance journalist with twenty years of reporting experience. My articles delve into a wide range of issues, exploring science, climate change, environmental policy, health, human rights and culture.

​My work has taken me on many an incredible journey through wild desolate caves that Jain monks once made their homes in, to ancient excavation sites in the heart of rural India and to the blinding heat of salt mines that are on the throes of climate change.  

​I have been published in The New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, British Medical Journal, HAKAI magazine, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg News,  South China Morning Post, Atlas Obscura, Reader’s Digest, BBC.com, The Diplomat (Australia), Morning Calm (South Korea), Christian Science Monitor and many others.  

In 2023, I was awarded the Pulitzer Center's grant on crisis reporting. My project involved chronicling the lives of India's seaweed diving women, their triumphs, heartaches, and challenges for NPR. You can read about it here.