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
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'', ''
Christian Science Monitor
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'', ''
Vogue India
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'', and ''
Conde Nast Traveller India''. After seven to eight years of research on the
Dom community of
Varanasi
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, she produced ''
Fire on the Ganges: Life among the Dead in Banaras'', published in 2023 by
HarperCollins
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21st-century Indian journalists
Date of birth missing (living people)
Indian women academics
Indian women journalists
21st-century Indian women writers
Living people
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
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