Neha Thirani Bagri | Freelance Journalist

Neha Thirani Bagri

Commuters in a bus and pedestrians on the street wear masks in Kolkata, India. (Bikas Das / Associated Press)

As COVID-19 spreads, India tries to control the narrative by targeting journalists

Jayanti Keshav Parmar, a tailor, at his home in Dharavi. His sewing machine sits idle, as no one in the neighborhood can afford to have new clothes stitched this year. (Atul Loke for TIME)

India’s Biggest Slum Successfully Contained COVID-19. But Can Its Residents Survive the Economic Collapse?

A health care worker checks a woman's temperature and oxygen saturation in the Dhole Patil slum on Aug. 10. (Atul Loke for TIME)

How the Pandemic Is Reshaping India

Covid-19 has put a huge strain on health services in Mumbai and across the rest of India Photograph: Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images

‘Women always take the brunt’: India sees surge in unsafe abortion

A demonstrator in Uttar Pradesh displays a picture of Dalit leader Chandrasekhar Azad at a rally in Deoband, India, in April.(Altaf Qadri / Associated Press)

India’s lower-caste Dalits, who helped elect Modi, now threaten to oust him

24th day Hunger strike by School Service Commission (SSC) qualified candidates as they demand of immediate joining in state schools, where the selection test happened in 2017, result came out in March 2018 and still their names are in the waiting list. Till now no response from the state government. (Photo by Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

India Is Trapping Its Young People

Mr Kumar is a candidate for the Communist Party of India. (Getty Images)

India student leader ‘a symbol of protest’ against PM Modi

Indian tribal women in traditional attire listen to Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi at a campaign rally in the northeastern state of Assam on April 3, 2019.(Anupam Nath / Associated Press)

In India’s election, male politicians have a new mantra: women first

Supporters of India’s opposition Congress party cheer at an election rally outside the city of Ahmedabad on March 12.(Sam Panthaky / AFP/Getty Images)

India is about to hold the biggest election in history. Here are the numbers

An Indian man reads a Feb. 27 newspaper detailing airstrikes the day before in Pakistan. During India and Pakistan’s recent clashes, a deluge of fake news on social media, sometimes picked up by traditional media, fueled calls for escalation. (Piyal Adhikary / EPA/Shutterstock)

When India and Pakistan clashed, fake news won

India’s proposals to monitor online content have drawn comparisons to China, which has one of the most restrictive internet and social media policies in the world. (Getty Images)

India proposes tough new laws to censor online content

Not quite an ark. (REUTERS/JASON REED)

The US is relocating an entire town because of climate change. And this is just the beginning

Savitri Mundo waits by the water pump in Fultala. Her husband, Bibhuti, now works in Dhaka as a security guard and comes home every three months [Neha Thirani Bagri/The GroundTruth Project]

Bangladesh’s water crisis: A story of gender

Rainbow nation. (REUTERS/DANISH SIDDIQUI)

“Everyone treated me like a saint”—In Iran, there’s only one way to survive as a transgender person

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There are no witches here

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