In the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan, more than 2.5 million people work in the mining industry, making slabs, bricks, tiles, cobbles, and paving stones. Thousands of them are children. The st...
Romita Saluja
Romita Saluja is an award-winning independent journalist in India. Her work includes longform investigations, narrative nonfiction, and cross-border collaborations that explore the themes of development, gender, labour, health, migration, and human rights. It has appeared in The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, BBC, Missing Perspectives, South China Morning Post, Undark Magazine, Ms Magazine, Al Jazeera, Scroll, and many other publications around the world. She has been a fellow with the Population Reference Bureau, One World Media, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, and Journalism Centre on Global Trafficking. Her writing has also been supported by grants from the International Women's Media Foundation, International Center for Journalists, and Thomson Reuters Foundation. Most recently, she won Save the Children’s Global Media Award 2024 for her investigation on child labour in India’s mining industry.
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