Radhika Iyengar

Radhika Iyengar
OccupationJournalist
EducationColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York City
Notable worksFire on the Ganges (2023)
Website
Official website

Radhika Iyengar is an Indian journalist, writer, and recipient of the 2018 Red Ink Awards in the category of human rights. She held the Prabha Dutt Fellowship in 2016, the Bianca Pancoat Patton Fellowship in 2019, and the Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship in 2020. She has written for several news magazines including Al Jazeera, Christian Science Monitor, Vogue India, and Conde Nast Traveller India. After seven to eight years of research on the Dom community of Varanasi, she produced Fire on the Ganges: Life among the Dead in Banaras, published in 2023 by HarperCollins.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Radhika Iyengar". A Suitable Agency. 10 February 2021. Archived from the original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  2. ^ Salam, Ziya Us (6 October 2023). "'Witnessing such sights each day has a deep, scarring impact on the children at Manikarnika Ghat,' says Radhika Iyengar, author of Fire on the Ganges". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  3. ^ Rathod, Pranav (2018). "Pressclub Mumbai". MumbaiPressclub. Archived from the original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2023.