Astha Rajvanshi examined the lives of women and marginalized communities in India and greater South Asia as a Levinson Fellow. She explored how groups navigate the notions of safety and freedom amid a rapidly changing political and economic landscape. Previously, she worked for the New York Times Magazine and was a recipient of the Open City Fellowship by the Asian American Writers Workshop in New York. Originally from Sydney, Australia, she is a graduate of Columbia University’s Stabile Center for Investigative Reporting, where she was a Brown Institute Scholar for Media Innovation and a Global Migration Reporting Fellow.
Dispatches from Astha Rajvanshi
New Yorker: Astha Rajvanshi on a vanishing Indian village
A coal mining company run by Asia’s richest man is strip-mining tribal lands.
Astha Rajvanshi report: Women and minorities in India
How the rise of Hindu nationalism affects Indian women and minorities.
TIME: Astha Rajvanshi on India’s ‘conversion therapy’
One woman fights to enforce the UN’s global ban on the treatment in India.