Monica is an independent journalist based in Bangalore. She writes on technology, gender, and development. She is the recipient of the 2020 Stop Slavery Media Award by Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Chapter 1 How tiger skin in Nepal was traced to Uttar Pradesh On the last day of March 2017, Shikha Bisht walked from her home on the idyllic campus of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in Dehradun to her office. The five-minute walk in the early summer felt pleasant amidst the pyramid-like buildings that […]
In 2019, the NCMEC got 16.9 million suspected CSAM reports, of which nearly 1.98 million were from India—the single-largest out of 241 countries. The Indian subcontinent ranks high when it comes to CSAM consumption.
A girl wakes up in a tiny dark cell. Where am I? What is this place? Why can’t I remember how I came here? She knocks on the door. “Is anybody there?” She paces up and down the room. An older woman enters. Everybody calls her Masi; she runs a brothel. A young girl, Meena, […]
A gripping narrative of Farzana, a sex trafficking survivor, who was lured by false promises of love and opportunity-- her journey unveils the disturbing nexus between technology and exploitation, shedding light on the hidden horrors of modern-day slavery.
Between 2014 and 2016, 76 people died clicking selfies in India — more than half the total number of such deaths reported worldwide during the same period. In 2017, at least 11 lives have been lost in selfie-related accidents in India. What explains this disturbing trend? On a bright June evening in 2014, as the […]
