India: changing and unchanging. (Snigdha.poonam@gmail.com)
As competition for jobs among India’s youth intensifies, the offer of a lucrative career in a call centre can be difficult to turn down – even if the work turns out to be operating a scam.
Guardian, The Long Read / January 2018
Millions of young Indians are heading online to make sense of their place in the world
Financial Times / October 2017
Why big cities no longer translate to freedom for young Indians.
Financial Times / August 2017
Inside the world of gau rakshaks--armed protectors of the cow mother
Granta / December 2016
Investigating life and death in Kota, a small town in India where a multitude of students prepare for the world's most competitive exam.
Huffington Post / June 2016
How a bouquet of YouTube series are dragging India into TV's worldwide Golden Age.
Financial Times / May 2016
A conversation with psychiatrist Shyam Bhat about his book, How to Heal Your Broken Heart.
Collectively.org / May 2016
In a small town in India, a police officer tackles the menace of love.
Amazon.com / January 2016
Unlike their predecessors, for whom it was a job for life, the peons of the new generation are using it a step towards upward mobility.
The Guardian / November 2015
What keeps India’s favourite true-crime magazines nice and juicy.
GQ India / October 2015
What makes a 92-year-old doctor the sexual compass for contemporary India.
Al Jazeera America / September 2015
Inside the world of professionals whose job is to provide Indians with things to share on their smartphone networks.
Mumbai Mirror / August 2015
Why teaching yoga is just a job for a 20-year-old hopeful migrant to Delhi.
Quartz / June 2015
A look at the business of gated dating clubs for India's professional elite
Quartz / April 2015
A day in the life of a reporter at Khabar Lahariya, a news-gathering collective of rural female journalists from marginalised communities in the Indian heartland.
The Guardian / April 2015
What popular Indian fiction tells us about the expectations of young men and women from love, sex and marriage.
The Caravan / March 2015
The portrait of a fixer in rural India, or how to become a big man in a small place.
Granta Magazine / February 2015
What's behind the recent surge in the business of commercial clinics offering Paternity-testing by DNA.
OPEN / January 2015
Across India, young people are breaking the standard command of degree-job-settlement to take up motivational speaking.
The Times of India / November 2014
Business has never been better for Delhi's female detectives who have suddenly more cases of "cheating partner" to solve than they can handle
The Guardian / November 2014
A bunch of young, market-savvy storytellers are writing in Hindi to challenge the outsize hold of the English language over popular Indian publishing.
OPEN / October 2014
On "Being Bhaijaan", a documentary film looking at the effect of Bollywood star Salman Khan's screen image on small-town masculinity in India.
The New York Times / September 2014
On Sharing Dard, the Indian internet's underside where a fast-growing group of lonely young people are telling each other their saddest secrets.
GQ India / August 2014
On the growing market for personality development classes in India.
The New York Times / July 2013
An Indian writer of romance fiction who deals with extreme fandom and literary obscurity almost simultaneously.
The New York Times / March 2013
How a small company in a dusty Delhi district that dealt in song books and leather patches introduced Indians to Valentine's Day.
The New York Times / February 2013
The rush to bring online dating to India
The Caravan / March 2012
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