Welcome!

Mridu Khullar Relph, 28, is an award-winning freelance journalist currently based in New Delhi, India.

She has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, and North America, and writes for TIME, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Global Post, Ms., and the Christian Science Monitor among others. She is a contributing editor at Elle, India.

She has also been a contributor to the books Chicken Soup for the Pre-Teen Soul II and Voices of Alcoholism.

In 2008-09, Mridu spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Visiting Scholar at the School of Journalism.

For rates, reprints and assignments, please contact her here.
To read what her readers write in to say each week, click here.
 

Recent Features:

India Could Be Next Big Destination for Gay Tourists (The New York Times, May 31, 2010)
	A year after an Indian high court overturned a law decriminalizing same-sex intercourse, businesses are beginning to recognize a new and possibly lucrative niche market.
In India, Banking on the Morning After (Time, May 26, 2010)
	Use of emergency contraceptives have surged in India since 2007. But is it safe for women to use the morning after pill as a primary means of birth control?
Bad loan? India firm sends in the women
	India's traditional ways of recovering loans are intimidation, threats, and violence. One loan-recovery agency is using a powerful new technique: sending soft-spoken women to collect.
Taking the Field: Aliya Das Gupta, equestrian,  Krushnaa Patil, mountaineer (Elle, May 2010)
	Determination and courage define these young women, who are passionate about changing the perception of sport in India
The Treasure of Trash (The Caravan, February 2010)
	In an attempt to make the city greener and cleaner for the Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi in October, the government has been experimenting with several new ventures, including a plan to privatise the city’s waste collection systems.
One Man's Trash (Global Post, January 19, 2010)
	About one percent of Delhi residents scrape by as trash pickers. Now, privatization threatens to leave them even worse off.
That Night In Bhopal (Elle, December 2009)
	On 3rd December, 1984, a deadly gas killed thousands in what came to be known as the world's worst industrial disaster. Mridu Khullar traveled to the city on the 25th anniversary of the gas tragedy
Dreaming of a Safer Delhi (The Caravan, December 2009)
	Following in Beijing’s footsteps, the Delhi government is looking to give the city an image makeover before the Commonwealth Games in October 2010. Among the local habits they want to strike off are pissing on the streets, spitting on the sidewalks, and the rude, abusive behavior of drivers. But Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s biggest challenge is what is considered Delhi’s biggest shame: an overwhelming lack of respect for women.
Report on Mosque Trashing Prompts Fury in India (Time, Nov 24, 2009)
	India has waited 17 years for the findings of a commission into the riots that began at Ayodhya. In that time, a younger electorate has emerged, for whom communal politics are a thing of the past
Plastic Roads Offer Greener Way to Travel in India (IHT, Nov 14, 2009)
(c) Namas Bhojani	Mr. Khan, 60, is trying to solve two of the biggest problems in India: battered roads and overflowing landfills. His solution: streets made with recycled plastic.

More Features...