As a New Delhi-based journalist and a social development communicator for 30 years, she enjoys this career of trying to figure out issues of social development and its impact – or the lack of it – on people.

As a woman of colour, she hears the voice of women on the margins more clearly than others.

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Chitra Gopalakrishnan

As a New Delhi-based journalist and a social development communicator for 30 years, she enjoys this career of trying to figure out issues of social development and its impact – or the lack of it – on people.

Quietus

Quietus

by Chitra Gopalakrishnan   Release travels to me through the icy waters of my beloved river Beas. Not drenched in apprehension but in lightness. As I wade across its blue-green, glassy waters, head down, inverted images of Kangra’s snow-wrinkled mountains scuttle around me. Surface reflections of upside down deodars with spiky leaves, conical crowns, level […]