I’m a multi-platform journalist, writer and editor based in Australia. My work covers international relations, foreign policy, migration and the migrant experience, with a particular focus on South Asia. I also love to write about cities and design.

My first book, Growing Up Indian In Australia, was out in July 2024, an anthology of first-person essays on the lived migrant experiences of Indian-Australians.

I have contributed to a wide range of international and Australian news and current affairs outlets, and am the Canberra Correspondent for Monocle magazine.

I spent almost a decade living in India and covering South Asia as an independent foreign correspondent. Assignments took me from Bhutan to Sri Lanka, London to Johannesburg, covering everything from music to defence to business. I’ve interviewed the former prime minister of Bhutan, the political leader of Tibet, Jacinda Ardern and Benazir Bhutto.

I’ve written analysis, opinion, humour, essays, arts criticism, news and features. I am a former news anchor with ABC and SBS, and spent many years as a broadcast journalist, both behind and in front of the camera. During my broadcast career I’ve also produced and line-produced news bulletins, read the news on the radio, written and reported both TV and radio news and made long-form radio features. I’ve produced for ABC Q&A and Foreign Correspondent. I still love the news, even though I don’t do much of it any more.

I have a Master of International Relations degree from ANU and have worked in the aid and development sector. Sometimes I speak at events, sometimes I host them, sometimes I moderate chats between other people.

I live and work on Ngunnawal land in Canberra.

Sydney

Concord Library

5.30pm – 7.00pm

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Canberra

National Library of Australia

6.00pm – 7.15pm

‘Mother India: Gender and the Diaspora’ panel

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