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