Life and career
Vidya Krishnan started her career in 2003 at The Pioneer newspaper. As a freelance journalist, she regularly writes for Foreign Policy, [3] The Caravan, [4] and The Atlantic, [5] [6] and The New York Times [7] . She was previously the health editor for The Hindu . [8]
She has reported on issues including the Rohingya genocide, tuberculosis , the right to health movement, and ethical standards in Indian clinical trials of pharmaceutical drugs. [9] [10] Krishnan reported facing sexual harassment at India Today in 2018. [11]
In 2020, after years of health reporting, Krishnan spoke about navigating high levels of online harassment while reporting on COVID-19 [8] including receiving death and rape threats. [12]
Throughout 2021, Krishnan was critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in India. [13] [14] She spoke about how the pandemic is disproportionately affecting poor people, and that the response is not led by scientists. [15] [16] [17] [18] She received online abuse and death threats due to her reporting about the pandemic. [19]
She wrote one of four essays in "The Talk", a collaborative series published by The Emancipator that won an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2023. [20] [21] The series was about the difficult conversations taking place in the homes of marginalized families in order to keep their children safe in a society gripped by culture wars and deeply entrenched racism in the United States.
In 2025, she published her second book, White Lilies: An Essay on Grief [22] [23] (Westland) about poetry, Delhi and road rage.
In January 2026, she joined the People's Archive of Rural India as a Senior Fellow, reporting on rural healthcare in India.
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