Journalism
I’ve written features on several beats for several digital and print publications, such as BBC Future, NPR’s Goats and Soda, Undark, Ms. Magazine, Vice, Atmos, The New Humanitarian, IndiaSpend, and Logic magazine, among several others.
Email me at agnee@agneeghosh.com for reporting assignments.
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OAKLAND NORTH - What you need to know about speed cameras to be installed across Oakland
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation into law last month that enables speed cameras in Oakland and other cities in an effort to boost traffic safety.
OAKLAND NORTH - Obstacles stand in the way of more protected bike lanes in Oakland
After a 4-year-old’s death in August, the push to develop protected bike lanes under Oakland’s Safe Oakland Streets citywide initiative has grown. But funding constraints and low personnel are preventing their construction.
ENVIRONMENT
ATMOS - India’s Tale of Climate Extremes
The Frontline sheds light on the spectrum of climate disasters India faces—and the structural change necessary to prevent such loss in the future.
INDIASPEND - "We Have Given Up Hope": Why Residents of Ghatal Are Tired of Frequent Floods
Recurring floods in Ghatal in Paschim Medinipur district damage people's homes and crops, shattering their lives and livelihoods.
ATMOS - The Tiger Widows of India Conserving the Mangrove Forest Where Their Husbands Died
In the Sundarbans, the tiger is king. In its shadow stands the Sundari tree, an endangered mangrove. The Frontline talks to a group of women whose husbands were killed by tigers and is now conserving these trees to protect the forest where their partners were lost.
ATMOS - What’s India’s COVID-19 Crisis Got to Do With Climate Activism?
The COVID-19 surge across India has killed hundreds of thousands. The country’s long-standing air pollution crisis may be playing a role. Local climate activists are calling for change.
ROUNDGLASS SUSTAIN - Mohammed Dilawar: A Superhero for the House Sparrow
The humble house sparrow’s population was seeing a steep decline for decades, until an ecologist decided to do something about it.
LONGFORM
LOGIC MAGAZINE - If You Have an Enemy, Then Buy Them a Car: Gig Workers vs. Multinational Corporations in India
Ramesh Prasad remembers the large advertisements that Uber and Ola had pasted on the back of buses and large billboards around the city of Kolkata, India. The year was 2015, and Prasad was the personal driver of a family based in Kalighat. He was used to seeing adverts that were too good to be true, promising working-class people like him a better life and more money.
“But this particular advertisement said that by driving my own car, I could earn Rs 1 lakh ($1223 USD) every month! And I could set my own times too,” says Prasad. (One lakh is a numerical unit in India equivalent to 100,000.)
HEALTH
UNDARK - In India, a Spark of Hope for Detecting a Chronic Lung Disease
Silicosis is an incurable illness affecting millions of factory workers. A new tool may lower the barrier to diagnosis.
GAVI - India draws lessons from polio eradication initiative
The programme to eradicate polio shows that mass immunisation is possible in India.
THE NEW HUMANITARIAN - Concern grows in India over hunger deaths, food aid, and data gaps
The government is accused of failing to log starvation deaths, while the safety net isn’t catching all it should.
GOVERNMENT AND POLICY
BITCH MEDIA - In India’s COVID-19 Crisis, Social Media Does What Government Won’t
As bodies pile up in crematoriums and long queues of ambulances wait outside hospitals, people are relying on the mercy and help of strangers on the internet in lieu of government action.
WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER - Proposed Islamophobic Two-Child Policy Threatens to Harm Women of All Faiths in India
Narratives surrounding population control policies have been communalized in India for years, with several cases of ministers from the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) engaging in loose talk about the Muslim population rising at an alarming rate.
NPR GOATS AND SODA - 'He Left Me All Alone In The World': India's COVID Widows Struggle To Survive
The Indian media are calling women such as Sharma "COVID widows." These are women who have lost a spouse — often the sole breadwinner of the family — during the pandemic. These widows find themselves saddled with additional financial burdens such as hospital bills, while they grieve the loss of their partner.
WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER - 'Love Jihad': The Dangerous New State Propaganda Against Muslims in India
On November 1, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, announced that he would introduce a strict new law to curb “love jihad,” an Islamophobic conspiracy theory against interfaith marriages, which alleges that Muslim men lure non-Muslim women into converting to Islam by seduction.
GENDER
GAL—DEM - India’s all-women frontline defence against COVID-19 are now locked into a fight for fair pay
ASHA workers have been a lifeline for rural communities in the pandemic. Now they’re demanding better pay and working conditions
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST - In India, was a high-profile sexual assault case let down by poor policing and victim-blaming?
A journalist took eight years to bring her alleged rapist to court, only for him to be acquitted over discrepancies and delays in the collection of evidence.
TECH
VICE MOTHERBOARD - Facial Recognition Is Out of Control in India
In May 2021, during India’s second wave of COVID-19, SQ Masood and his father-in-law were returning home on his silver-coloured motor scooter in Hyderabad, in the Indian state of Telangana. While driving through the busy lanes of Shahran, a Muslim-dominated neighborhood, they were pulled over by two police officers.
Masood wasn’t concerned at first because he assumed that he would be asked to show his driver’s license or the vehicle registration card. So he and his father-in-law cooperated and they got off the motor scooter.
CULTURE
AFAR - In India, Astrotourism Is Looking Up
The country’s vastness means opportunities abound to better see the stars.
WHETSTONE MAGAZINE - Much Ado About Dessert
Since 2015, West Bengal and Odisha have been locked in a fierce fight over who owns the beloved rosogolla
TRT WORLD - New initiative documents India’s lost heritage sites
Delhi-based photographer Amit Pasricha is a man on a mission: to document India’s lesser-known and often forgotten heritage sites.
THE NATIONAL NEWS - Who are the Chitrakars, the singing artists of India's Naya Pingla Village?
The hamlet in West Bengal is renowned for its Patuas, residents who combine painting and singing in a unique artform.
VICE - I'm Dalit. This is How My Caste Impacts My Mental Health.
My Scheduled Caste identity has been like a placard hanging around my neck, making me an easy target for ridicule and even hatred among upper-caste friends and colleagues.