Writer

Books, Editor

2016

• River of Flesh: The Prostituted Woman in Indian Short Fiction, Publisher: Speaking Tiger Publications, New Delhi.

2014

• As if Women Matter: The Essential Gloria Steinem Reader, Publisher, Rupa Publications, New Delhi.

2009

• Qajar, Out of Focus, West by East, Like Everyday, My Press Photo, Be Colorful, Ctrl+Alt+Delete-Shadi Ghadirian, Iranian Artist, Publisher: Tasveer Arts

2004

• The place where we live is called a red-light area, Publisher: Apne Aap Women Worldwide, Kolkata.

2009

• Tuberculosis do or die, Publisher: Kathmandu Panos Institute South Asia and World Health Organization

Books, Contributor

2013

• Town of Love by Anne Ch. Ostby, Contributed afterword. Publisher: Spinifex Press, Australia.

2012

• Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry by Melinda Tankard Reist & Abigail Bray, (Contributed Chapter-Porn in India) Publisher: Spinifex Press, Australia.
• Prem Nagar by Anne Ostby, Afterword, Publisher: Supernova, India
• Kjærlighetsgata by Anne Ostby, Afterword, Publisher: Schibsted forlag as, Norway

2009

• Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Cheryl WuDunn, Contributed Chapters: Prohibition and Prostitution & The New Abolionists (Pages 54-60). Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, USA

2008

• India Revisited: Conversations on Continuity and Change by Ramin Jahanbegloo.
• Chapter: Roles of NGOs in People-Oriented Development. Publisher: Oxford University Press.

2000

• Breaking the Earthenware Jar: Lessons from South Asia to End Violence against Women and Girls by Ruth Hayward. Publisher: United Nations, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia.

Articles (peer reviewed, selected)

• 2011: Gender and Modernity, Volume 621-622, Publisher: Seminar, India
• 2009: On the Move: Migration Challenges in the Indian Ocean Littoral edited by Ellen Laipson and Amit Pandya. Chapter: Human Trafficking in Asia: Trends and Responses. Publisher: The Henry L. Stimson Center.

Op-eds and media articles (selected)

• Aug 18, 2016 “Gaping Holes”, The Telegraph.
• Aug 18, 2016 “Colonial Prejudices Refuse to Go”, The Hindustan Times.
• Aug 10, 2016 “A Law that Allows Child Labour”, The Hindu
• Aug 2, 2016 “Clinton’s nomination marks a welcome shift in gender politics” The Hindustan Times.
• June 18-July 13, 2016- The Bihar Safarnama series, The Telegraph
  • Legacy of social justice, hope for change 
  • The jail that sparked many a story
  • English-vinglish: Language & legacy
  • The victims of superstition across centuries & oceans
  • What India can learn from Bihar
  • Dreams Soar Over Poverty
  • In cradle of harmony, Insaniyat only religion
  • Auto ride powered by a woman's grit 
  • Why SMART is not always smart for India
  • Future driven by glorious past
  • Weavers of history apt case for a museum of the living
  • Freedom taken for granted in Bapu karmbhoomi
  • Spinning the yarn in search of what is right
  • Socialist legacy, Orwell & beyond
  • Nature's bounty, poverty paradox
  • Idyllic setting, a life of ideals
  • Face to Face with JP's legacy
  • Social battle that empowered a deprived caste with rights
  • Nutty success story: makhana's amazing journey
• Sep 16, 2015 “The Enemy Within” Outlook India.
• Nov 18, 2015 “Gender Bender in Bihar” Outlook.
• Dec 10, 2015 “Smart Women” for The Telegraph,
• Dec 22, 2015 Frightening stories of prostitutes in Paris, Daily O
• Dec 23, 2015 “Starve Them, Sell Them, Hang Them: The Destiny of India’s Poor Children” The Wire
• May 1 2016 “Crime and Punishment from Tehran to New York” The Daily O.
• April 23, 2014, Arunachalam Muruganantham, Time
• January 30-March 20, 2014, Notes on a Tour of the Indian Women’s Movement, with Gloria Steinem , New York Times
• From New Delhi
• In Jaipur New Feminists Are Born,
• A Constant Battle Against the Sale of Bodies in Bihar,
• “In Kolkata, Reminders of Why We Help the ‘Last Girl’,
• Kerala-A Temporary End to a Tour of the Indian Women’s Movement,
• January 9, 2014 “The silence has been broken, An open letter to Indian women, a year after December 16,2012”, The Indian Express
• December 23 2013: “A Tale of Two Citizens”, The Hindu.
• November 25, 2013, “Damascus Diary” Outlook.

• September 19, 2013 “Delhi Rape Trial Over, Not Questions on Cops”, The Telegraph.
• September 09, 2013: “Our Very Presence in Public Places Angers Men”, Outlook India.
• September 3, 2013 “No Change in culture of rape as law remains on paper”, The Telegraph
• August 28 2013: “Victims Blamed in India’s Rape Culture”, CNN.com
• June 22 2013: “A Bulwark for Unwed Mothers”, The Hindu.
• May 7 2013 “Survivors of Prostitution Changed the Law in India”, Huffington Post.
• March 26, 2013 “This is not about revenge” The Hindustan Times
• March 26, 2013: “This Is Not About Revenge”, Hindustan Times
• March 22 2013: “The Unnoticed Rapes, Low-Caste Women Forced into Prostitution!”, Youth Ki Awaaz.
• February 13 2013 “Punish Trafficker, Safeguard Prostitute”, The Telegraph.
• February 1, 2013: “Criminal Justice: Police Reforms Have to Begin with Accountability”, The Caravan.
• January 13 2013: “Challenging India’s Rape Culture”, The Hindu.

• January 8, 2013: “India: Examining the Motivation of Rape”, Open Democracy
• December 21 2011 “Occupy Wall Street: What would Gandhi Say?” The Guardian, UK.

• October 9, 2009, The Failure of Anti-Trafficking Efforts, Wall Street Journal
• June 26, 1998, A former Prime Minister Talks about his debut novel, Asiaweek, CNN

• Feb 14, 1997 “In Gods Hands”, Asiaweek, CNN

• May 24, 1996 Coalitions are Best, Interview with Jyoti Basu, Asiaweek, CNN
• March 1, 1996: Children for Sale, Asiaweek, CNN
• 1993, A Nation’s Shame, Seminar magazine
• 21 Dec 1992-3 Jan 1993: An eyewitness account, Business India
• Oct 18, 1987: Roop Kanwar was not very religious, The Sunday Observer