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Multiplatform journalist with 12+ years of experience reporting on elections, accountability and social movements in the U.S. and India — across print, digital and documentary.
Hello! I am a journalist and documentary filmmaker based in California, covering politics, immigration and the South Asian diaspora. My work has appeared in The Guardian, The Quint, Oakland North, The Oaklandside and Press Insider, among others.
Over 12 years in newsrooms across India and the United States, I have covered global politics, diaspora movements and international affairs both as a reporter and editor. I led international news coverage at The Quint, one of India's most respected independent digital publications, and helped launch Press Insider, India's first global policy publication, as its head of bureau. My investigations into Hindu right-wing fundraising networks in the United States have prompted responses from civil rights organizations and law enforcement.
I am a Jubilee Fellow and graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where I specialized in documentary filmmaking, using long-form storytelling to examine the impact of majoritarian politics in India and the United States. I also hold master's degrees in Peace and Conflict Studies and Broadcast Technology from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
Reported pieces and investigations
Photo stories and images from the field
An Iranian asylum seeker who fled persecution after the Women, Life, Freedom protests rebuilds his life in California — working multiple jobs, navigating a broken immigration system, and even campaigning for Donald Trump — until ICE detention takes everything from him again. A non-linear portrait of detention as a recurring rupture that destabilizes identity, labor and belonging.
Two American activists — David Hummel, a 21-year-old German-American, and Dottie, a Jewish-American artist — travel to the occupied West Bank as part of an international protective presence effort, bearing witness to Palestinian life under occupation. The film moves between harrowing footage of settler attacks and tense standoffs with soldiers, and quieter moments of humanity — culminating in the annual Marine Kite Festival in Burin, where children fly kites in defiance of a military ban. The film closes with a recitation of Refaat Alareer's poem If I Must Die, lending the documentary both its title and its moral heart.
An observational documentary on the lives of firefighters at Berkeley Fire Department's Station 5 — the quiet routines, the waiting, and the moments of stillness between emergency calls.
A video portrait of Chinese-American activist Brandon Lee, who was shot and paralyzed in the Philippines while advocating for Indigenous rights — and what drives him to continue the fight.
A documentary tracing the spices that changed the course of world history through Mattancherry in Kerala — a port town where ideas of cuisine and culture were exchanged on a global scale for centuries.
A documentary on Kashmiri rugs and their enduring cultural legacy, tracing intricate craftsmanship rooted in the Indo-Persian artistic tradition passed down through generations of weavers.
Available for commissions, collaborations, and editorial assignments — especially stories covering politics, immigration, and the South Asian diaspora.
If you're a fixer, editor, broadcaster, or fellow journalist, I'd love to hear from you.