Deccan Herald -- the coming water wars
I wrote an analytical piece on the impact of climate change on Indian and south Asia's water resources, and how water could be the biggest trigger of international conflicts in the region.
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Vivek T.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
$300 - $400 / Day
About
I'm a multiple award winning independent journalist from India. I write features and longform stories on Indian politics, business and economics, cricket, football, movies, music, ecology and environmental issues. Over the past 20 years I have worked with premium Indian publications such as The Economic Times, Outlook, Business Standard, India Today and Open magazine. I won the prestigious Red Ink award for journalism in 2018 for a longform story on India's longest river dispute.
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Hindustan Times -- Pollachi serial rape case: an investigation into small town crime in India
In February 2019, the news of a gang of young men sexually abusing women and filming such acts on mobile phones to blackmail the victims shocked Pollachi, a small, prosperous town in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This longform piece tried to investigate the truth behind some of the sensational claims made by politicians and the media.
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Hindustan Times -- The spread of fundamentalist Islam in South India
The story was a profile of a fundamentalist Islamist organisation called Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamaath (TNTJ) that claims to have a membership of more than a million in southern India. TNTJ came into the spotlight due to its alleged ideological affiliation with similar groups in Sri Lanka that are being investigated for the Easter bombings.
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