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Journalistic writings

• THE FOREVER GENOCIDE - Reported from refugee camps in Northern Iraq. This heart-wrenching story captures the pain of Yazidi women who were kidnapped, raped, sold into slavery by ISIS, and then impregnated. They had children but once ISIS was ‘defeated’ they were forced to abandon those babies by their community and political convenience. This is an 18,000-word narrative story and is also set to be made into a documentary.

   

• THE DE-FACTO CHIEF OF STAFF OF AMERICA’S PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT - A profile on Saikat Chakrabarti, the former chief of staff of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress. Was he the one behind the split in the Democratic Party?

• THE PHOTOGRAPHER, TUK-TUK’S AND A REVOLUTION - A character based report on the deadly Baghdad Protests that left more than 500 dead and 20,000 injured. A profile on Iraq based on the current political and social conflict. A photographer turned protester embedded in Tahrir Square speaks up at 10 PM from Baghdad.

• DESTROYED, DEJECTED, DISILLUSIONED: TALES OF IMMIGRANTS IN USA BLOCKED BY TRUMP’S INVISIBLE WALLS - Unearthed the impact of Donald Trump’s opaque bureaucratic ‘walls’ of policy changes on professional immigrants.

• INSTAGRAM STORIES: THE “AU COURANT” YOUTHQUAKE - An Op-ed style reflection on how Instagram stories have now become the “au courant” or fashionably almost invisible way to mobilize mass interest in a cause – be it in organizing protests, inspiring citizens to help with relief, creating mass awareness, and highlighting what’s not played up by the media for fear of persecution.

Research

• JUDICIAL ACTIVISM IN ARTICLE 21 OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION (RIGHT TO FREEDOM – PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PERSONAL LIBERTY)

• IRANIAN DISINFORMATION: A CURRENT AND FUTURE THREAT

• THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE YAZIDI GENOCIDE - A VIEW FROM THE UNITED NATIONS