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Mridu Khullar Relph, 29, 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.

In November 2010, she was named Development Journalist of the Year at the Developing Asia Journalism Awards Forum in Tokyo.

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Recent Features:

Where the roads are paved with plastic (ABC News, April 18, 2011)
	Plastic bags are a high-profile environmental problem, but an Indian businessman has seen the negative as an opportunity and is paving a path to the future.
In South Delhi, a Home for Three Generations (The New York Times, April 6, 2011)
	From the moment they decided to build a house on a wide dusty street lined with eucalyptus trees in this teeming city of about 17 million people, Manit and Sonali Rastogi knew it would have to meet the needs of not only six different people, but three different generations.
Inside the Dream Mind (Brain World, March 20, 2011)
	What goes on inside your brain when you’re dreaming? Well, as it happens, no one seems to know exactly. Not the mystics with the crystal balls, not the dream interpreters, and not even, as you might suspect, scientists.
Romancing India (Elle, October 2010)
	Hunky men, fair-skinned maidens, exotic locations: All staples of the hugely-popular Mills&Booon series. Now, the romance giant hits Indian shores with indigenous characters. It's the start of a new love story
Wasted opportunity for Delhi's environment (ABC News,  September 28, 2010)
	The Commonwealth Games have not improved the lot of either New Delhi's poorest residents or the capital's natural environment.
A Bitter Pill (Elle, August 2010)
	By the end of the day today, more than 100 million women around the world will have taken a birth control pill. It’s completely possible that you know not one of them. While the pill has brought sexual freedom and choices to the Wet, its acceptance in India has been dismal. The birth control pill is the preferred form of contraeption in the West, but in India, only about three per cent of women use it, according to the National Family Health Survey.
A plane crash, a fake passport and a slew of questions (GlobalPost, July 3, 2010)
	Passport fraud case is tip of iceberg for forged documents in India, authorities say.
Scientology takes hold in India (GlobalPost, June 8, 2010)
	A controversial religion has gripped India with its business principles and self-help routine.
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?

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