Nilanjana Bhowmick

Nilanjana Bhowmick has been a journalist for more than two decades and won three international awards for her reports on gender and development. She began her career as a producer for the BBC Asian Network in Birmingham and The World Today, the flagship current affairs programme of the BBC World Service Radio based in London. She was the correspondent for TIME magazine’s South Asia bureau in New Delhi. She has written for the Washington Post, Al Jazeera and National Geographic. Her non-fiction work, poetry and short stories have appeared in several international anthologies. Her book, Lies Our Mothers Told Us: The Indian Woman’s Burden (2022), is a bestseller and has been nominated for several literary awards.