Al Jazeera Journalism Review
Independent journalist from India and Indian-administered Kashmir, with a focus on human rights, gender justice, women’s issues, the environment, and marginalised communities. She received the Journalismfund Fund Europe grant and is a 2025 Laadli Media Fellow. Her work has appeared in major outlets such as The Guardian, Reuters, The Lancet Psychiatry, and Global Press Journal. She is also the founder of the Women Freelancers’ Collective (WFC), a network for women journalists in the Global South.
Writer’s Articles
Crisis of Credibility: How the Anglo-American Journalism Model Failed the World
Despite an unprecedented global flood of information, journalism remains strikingly impotent in confronting systemic crises—largely because the dominant Anglo-American model, shaped by commercial imperatives and capitalist allegiances, is structurally incapable of pursuing truth over power or effecting meaningful change. This critique calls for dismantling journalism’s subordination to market logic and imagining alternative models rooted in political, literary, and truth-driven commitments beyond the confines of capitalist production.