Selected Publications

‘Jihadi Mindset’: No FIR on Muslim Student’s Complaint Days After Bajrang Dal Assault at Garba

Bihar: Just One FIR Charged 144 Protesters and 5,000 Unknown, At Least 50 Minors, With ‘Attempt to Murder’

State-owned ONGC donated over Rs 668 crore to 20 Sangh-linked organisations across 10 years

With Sachi Hegde, Ayush Joshi and Jahnavi

Arming the world: Rheinmetall’s secretive ammunition factory program

Field reporting and photographs from India; lead bylines Attila Kálmán and Nico Schmidt

Dead, Trapped and Waiting to Escape: Meet the Indians Forced to Fight Russia’s War Against Ukraine

Republished by Worldcrunch

Hopelessness and Despair in Bihar: Misgovernance does not Matter, Caste does

With Apoorvanand

Questions Surround Committee That Certifies India’s Electronic Voting Machines

With Parth MN

Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn

Project Electoral Bond, picked by GIJN among India’s best investigations of 2024

With Ragamalika Karthikeyan and Anand Mangnale

Scores of companies raided by central agencies bought electoral bonds

With Parth MN, Ragamalika Karthikeyan, Pratyush Deep, Basant Kumar and Azeefa Fathima, for Project Electoral Bond

Haryana: After Mahapanchayats in Support of Bhiwani Accused, Two More Hate Attacks Reported

Clicks and Bait: How a constellation of far-right Hindi YouTubers determine what you see on your TV

Won the IPI-India Award and the K. P. Narayana Kumar Memorial Award

With Alishan Jafri

मुख्यधारा के लिए नैरेटिव गढ़ता दक्षिणपंथी यूट्यूबरों का समूह

Hindi edition of “Clicks and Bait”

With Alishan Jafri

Shraddha Walkar and Beyond: How Media Coverage Is Shaping Perceptions

With Alishan Jafri

‘Judiciary should work on judicial matters only’: lawyers question Buxar Court notice asking court staff to clean temples

From abusing Gandhi to advocating genocide

With Alishan Jafri and Apoorvanand

Narendra Modi and the Bloodthirsty Dharam Sansad Speakers Are Closer Than Most People Think

With Apoorvanand

Why India is witnessing spike in attacks on Christians, churches

With Alishan Jafri

‘Outsider narrative’: Muslims in India’s Bihar fear Assam repeat

सीमांचल को साम्प्रदायिक ध्रुवीकरण की प्रयोगशाला बना रहे हिन्दुत्ववादी संगठन

With Umesh Kumar Ray and Tanzil Asif

After HC Order, Bihar District Admins Start Process of ‘Sensitising’ People on ‘Illegal Migrants’

How a Trafficked Woman’s Petition Is Being Used to Push for Detention of ‘Illegal Migrants’

Political socialization at home: Locating women in personal spaces

In Women Voters in Indian Elections

With Manjesh Rana

Politics as a career: Systemic political challenges

In Women Voters in Indian Elections

Families of Bihar’s ASHA Workers Who Died of COVID-19 Still Haven’t Been Compensated

With Sabah Gurmat

Underpaid and Without Protection, 15 ASHA Workers Died During COVID Second Wave in Bihar

With Sabah Gurmat

What a food park in Bihar’s Khagaria can tell us about the future of corporate agriculture in India

Bihar: 19 Years After Construction Began, Munger’s Road Bridge Across the Ganga Still Incomplete

Nobody’s ‘B Team’: The Politics of Owaisi’s AIMIM

With Alishan Jafri

Bihar: Are We Entering a New Era of Politics Built on the Ashes of the ‘Sushasan’ Rhetoric?

In Bihar, a balancing act: on poll alliances

With Sanjay Kumar

Curbing entry of criminals in Indian politics: Can the recent judgment of Supreme Court help?

With Sanjay Kumar

CAA protests and some lessons in solidarity

With Alishan Jafri

Coronavirus crisis, a lost opportunity?

Did electoral bonds help in bringing about transparency in political funding?

With Sanjay Kumar

विशेष लेख: क्या चुनावी बांड पारदर्शिता लाने में सफल रहा?

With Sanjay Kumar

Bihar 2020: Alliances hold the key to victory

With Sanjay Kumar

The republic of sedition

With Muzamil Yaqoob

Analysis of Delhi Assembly Election Results 2020

With Manjesh Rana and Aditya Pandey

The rise and rise of the alt right in India

With Muzamil Yaqoob

BJP support base is still strong, despite setbacks

With Sanjay Kumar

Integrating India: Diversity, many identities rule

With Sanjay Kumar

2024’s Best Investigative Stories in India (editors’ pick)

Project Electoral Bond named among India’s best investigations of 2024

GIJN picks Project Electoral Bond as one of India’s best investigative stories

Coverage of the GIJN recognition

How dubious YouTube ‘news’ channels are boosting Modi in India’s election

Quoted as an expert; “Clicks and Bait” cited

How Young Women In India Are Carving Space For Themselves In Politics

Cites my chapter in Women Voters in Indian Elections

Neel Madhav and Alishan Jafri Win IPI-India Award for Excellence in Journalism in ‘The Caravan’

Award ceremony coverage

Freelance journalists Neel Madhav, Alishan Jafri win IPI-India Award for Excellence in Journalism

Award ceremony coverage, with quotes

Caravan magazine wins IPI India Award 2023

IPI-India Award for “Clicks and Bait”

‘The Caravan’ मैगजीन ने जीता IPI-India अवॉर्ड 2023

IPI-India Award for “Clicks and Bait”

K P Narayana Kumar Memorial Award for Social Impact Journalism 2022

Award citation for “Clicks and Bait”

‘Last bastion of bold investigative journalism in India’: Caravan wins 2023 Shorenstein award

Notes the ACJ award for “Clicks and Bait”

Bihar Man Who Spread ‘Migrants Tortured in TN’ Disinfo Is Now BJP’s ‘Caste Politics’ Poster Child

Quoted on politics and the media