Riddhi Dastidar
Selected Journalism
Atmos, February 2024
Life Inside India’s Auroville, ‘The City the Earth Needs’
queerbeat / Behanbox / Pulitzer Centre, April 2023
Decode, March, 2023
The Influencer-Doctor Nexus That's Luring Young Women To Injectables
Terrain.art, February 2022
NFTs and an Accessible Art World : Fantasy or Reality?
IndiaSpend, December 2021
After Stan: Fight Falters, But Activists Continue Struggle For Justice For Jharkhand Undertrials
Vogue, December 2021
Through Hostile Witness, artist Baaraan Ijlal is resisting erasure before the seas drown us
IndiaSpend, October 2021
The Baffler, June 2021
Khabar Lahariya, June 2021
What Makes a Chatori: Women, Appetite & Food in Small-Town U.P
IndiaSpend, May 2021
Why Workplace Support is a Basic Need for Women with Schizophrenia
The Fuller Project, April 2021
Women Provide A Glimpse Into India’s COVID Disaster: 'That 22 year old Priya on Instagram'
Foreign Policy Magazine, The Fuller Project, April 2021
'India's Suffering Female Farmers Have the Most to Lose
Article 14, March 2021
Khabar Lahariya, January 2021
State of the COW: Bovine Dispatches from Uttar Pradesh
IndiaSpend, January 2020
India Has Mental Health Pensions But They Rarely Reach The Affected
Khabar Lahariya, December 2020
Flex & Shine in Ayodhya- Glimpses of Local Women Influencers & their Digital Dreams
IndiaSpend, November 2020
How Patients Living With Mental Illness, Hospitals Coped With COVID-19 Crisis
Khabar Lahariya, November 2020
Point of View -- Skin Stories, November 2019
Even under India’s new mental healthcare act, institutionalization is still a problem
The Life of Science, November 2020
Against a Science of Sacrifice
The Wire, August 2019
Cancel Culture vs Rape Culture, and the Case for Repairing Harm
Firstpost, February 2019
India aspires to be a 'climate leader', but govt is eroding environmental protections
Selected Fiction
Wasafiri Magazine, March 2022
Fuck Marry Kill (shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2021)
adda, October 2021
It Ends with a Kiss (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021)
Himal Southasian, February 2020
Selected Essays
The Locavore, August, 2023
Cooking for Many is an Exercise in Endurance
Autostraddle, February 2022
My Jackie: On Yellowjackets and a Missing Friend
Zine: Three Ways of Unpeeling Time (when the apocalypse is mundane and excruciatingly slow
Bright Wall/Dark Room, July 2020
Watching Bad TV Near the End of the World
Soup Magazine, June 2018
The Morality and Brutality of Hair
The Lookout Journal, December 2017
The Incredible and the Marvelous: Jessica, Midge, and so many more
The Lookout Journal, October 2017
Selected Poems Online
Glass Journal of Poetry, 2020
They Didn’t Show You the War in our Name Because Mrs. Trump was Attending a Happiness Class
Rattle Magazine, June 2019
"But Hinduism is Not Hindutva"
Parentheses Journal, 2019
Raktakarabi - Ghazal for my grandparents surrounded by flowers
Glass Journal of Poetry, 2019
On reading that Trevor Noah said an India-Pakistan war would be entertaining