Riddhi Dastidar
Journalism
Backed by Modi's government, NGOs set up shelters for trans people in India. Then, the NGOs say, the government left them hanging for funds
CNN, As Equals, June 2024
Life Inside India’s Auroville, ‘The City the Earth Needs’
Atmos, February 2024
Seen-Unseen
queerbeat / Behanbox / Pulitzer Centre, April 2023
The Influencer-Doctor Nexus That's Luring Young Women To Injectables
Decode, March, 2023
After Stan: In Jharkhand, Scheduled Tribes Still Battle Flimsy Criminal Cases Filed With Little EvidenceIndiaSpend, October, December 2021
India's Suffering Female Farmers Have the Most to Lose
Foreign Policy Magazine, The Fuller Project, April 2021
How It Feels: Mutual aid tries to fill in the blank where the government's pandemic response should be
The Baffler, June 2021
What Makes a Chatori: Women, Appetite & Food in small-town Uttar Pradesh
Khabar Lahariya, June 2021
I Am Not Afraid Of Arrest, The Govt Can Do Whatever It Wants: Interview with farmer union leader, Harinder Bindu on her 30 year journey in activism, and what takes to mobilise women
Article 14, March 2021
State of the COW: Bovine Dispatches from Uttar Pradesh
Khabar Lahariya, January 2021
How Patients Living With Mental Illness, Hospitals Coped With COVID-19 Crisis
IndiaSpend, November 2020
After the Cameras Leave: How the Justice System Abandons Dalit, OBC & Adivasi Families Seeking Redressal for Rape
Khabar Lahariya, November 2020
Cancel Culture vs Rape Culture, & the Case for Repairing Harm
The Wire, August 2019
Fiction
Fuck Marry Kill
(shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2021)
It Ends with a Kiss
adda, October 2021
(shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021)
Tesu
Himal Southasian, February 2020
Essays
Slip: Notes on Dancing Out of Frame
Dark N Light Zine, December 2024
Cooking for Many is an Exercise in Endurance
The Locavore, August, 2023
My Jackie: On Yellowjackets and a Missing Friend
Autostraddle, February 2022
Watching Bad TV Near the End of the World
Bright Wall / Dark Room, July 2020
Culture writing
The Art of Cheerfulness: Madhvi Parekh's Remembered Tales at the DAG
Frontline, August 2025
BLONI at Nature Morte in New Delhi is fusing fashion and art for a futuristic hyper-real world
Vogue, August 2023
Review: Our Wives Under the Sea & there are more things
Wasafiri, 38(1), 98–100, February 2023
Ncuti Gatwa on Doctor Who: “The Doctor twirling in a kilt to EDM is something we need to see”
Vogue, May 2024
Review: N.S. Harsha: Stomach Studio
Monsoon Malabar, March 2022
Through Hostile Witness, artist Baaraan Ijlal is resisting erasure before the seas drown us
Vogue India, 2021