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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)
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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.
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| In India, Banking on the Morning After
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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? |
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Bad loan? India firm sends in the women
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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.
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| Taking
the Field: Aliya Das Gupta, equestrian, Krushnaa
Patil, mountaineer (Elle, May 2010) |
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Determination and courage
define these young women, who are passionate about changing the
perception of sport in India |
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| The Treasure of Trash (The Caravan, February
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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
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| One Man's Trash (Global Post, January 19,
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About one percent of Delhi residents scrape
by as trash pickers. Now,
privatization threatens to leave them even worse off. |
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| That Night In Bhopal (Elle, December 2009) |
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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 |
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| Dreaming
of a Safer Delhi (The Caravan, December 2009) |
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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. |
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| Report on Mosque Trashing Prompts Fury in
India (Time, Nov 24, 2009) |
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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
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| Plastic Roads Offer Greener Way to Travel in
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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.
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