Himanshi Dhawan

Special Correspondent, TOI

Himanshi Dhawan is a Senior Editor with The Times of India with 25 years of experience in reporting on politics, social sector, gender and marginalised communities. Her writing spans issues related t ...

Himanshi Dhawan is a Senior Editor with The Times of India with 25 years of experience in reporting on politics, social sector, gender and marginalised communities. Her writing spans issues related to human rights violations, and looking at health, education, and livelihoods from a gendered lens. In recognition for her reporting she has received the UNFPA-Population First Laadli award for gender sensitive reporting in 2010-11. She has also been the recipient of the Edward Murrow Fellowship (2007) by the US State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program. She has studied English Literature at St Stephen's College, DU and completed her post-graduation in mass communication from Sophia College, Mumbai.

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Stories by the author

• Khalistan: Why a lost cause in India finding fertile ground in Canada

  
  25 Sep 2023 12:32 PM IST
• RUE-LETTE: The human cost of online gambling

  
  09 Oct 2022 10:52 AM IST
• We should have been allowed to capture Pakistan territory: General VP Malik

  
  26 Jul 2021 10:35 AM IST
• From sippers and sweaters to mail and mulaqats, how prisoners are being kept waiting for basics

  
  29 Nov 2020 10:15 AM IST
• Work from home has made workday of Indians 32 minutes longer

  
  29 Nov 2020 08:55 AM IST
• Virtual sleepovers to digital dancing: Pandemic has changed playtime

  
  06 Nov 2020 01:45 PM IST
• Chinese reaction may be a warning so that India sides with it on Covid, Taiwan, says ex-foreign secy Shyam Saran

  
  24 May 2020 10:33 AM IST
• In 3 states, 50% of death penalty rulings came on day of conviction: National Law University report

  
  14 May 2020 10:54 AM IST
• Indian-origin doctors stuck between visa and corona worries

  
  12 Apr 2020 10:49 AM IST
• How to catch a Covid patient, Sherlock-style

  
  29 Mar 2020 11:37 AM IST
• No more mobile pujas & cricket: Data price pinches poor as much as onions

  
  15 Dec 2019 07:03 AM IST
• Naughty, Haneef, Robin and Sher Khan: A tale of four Kargil heroes

  
  21 Jul 2019 10:42 AM IST
• With iron fist in velvet glove, Sheila Dikshit ran both her government and party

  
  21 Jul 2019 08:22 AM IST
• Meet the kisans with engineering degrees

  
  26 May 2019 10:55 AM IST
• 66A: How a dead law is being used to kill dissent

  
  19 May 2019 11:13 AM IST
• Bilkis Bano lost 14 kin, moved 20 houses and waited 17 years for justice

  
  28 Apr 2019 10:43 AM IST
• How border wars are splitting pariwars on WhatsApp

  
  10 Mar 2019 10:14 AM IST
• At 95, this Padma awardee is highest paid FMCG CEO

  
  27 Jan 2019 10:20 AM IST
• Where black is the colour of life, and kids go grey

  
  02 Dec 2018 10:45 AM IST
• Victoria rolls out the red carpet for Indians

  
  05 Nov 2018 10:27 AM IST
• Kashmiri women who choose to click amidst chaos

  
  23 Sep 2018 10:45 AM IST
• The black shadow of the mob on Muslim lives

  
  29 Jul 2018 10:50 AM IST
• Why people are lining up for ‘jail ka khana’ in Shimla

  
  15 Jul 2018 12:34 PM IST
• While Indians dither, expats keen to join Aadhaar club

  
  11 Mar 2018 10:48 AM IST
• How a 16-year-old is inspiring Haryana's girls to pick up the gun

  
  11 Mar 2018 10:42 AM IST
• Inside the ‘spiritual’ university where sex is seva

  
  14 Jan 2018 10:46 AM IST
• These millennials have a tech solution to your health problems

  
  07 Jan 2018 11:15 AM IST
• How India is partying this New Year

  
  31 Dec 2017 03:32 PM IST
• These seniors are rocking on YouTube

  
  17 Dec 2017 12:36 PM IST
• Some Indian farmers are turning moon-gazers

  
  17 Dec 2017 11:10 AM IST
• This village knows how to feed its hungry babies

  
  26 Nov 2017 11:40 AM IST
• Now, nameplates in Satara have both Mr & Mrs

  
  12 Nov 2017 10:13 AM IST
• The Quit Delhi Movement?

  
  12 Nov 2017 10:06 AM IST
• Slow poison: 80% of New Delhi’s tap water has plastic toxins

  
  16 Oct 2017 11:20 AM IST
• How Congress is getting its social media groove back

  
  15 Oct 2017 11:22 AM IST
• How a gurukul for coders is changing lives

  
  01 Oct 2017 11:17 AM IST
• How female qazis took the law into their own hands

  
  27 Aug 2017 10:17 AM IST
• When a Virat Kohli shot becomes a maths lesson

  
  16 Jul 2017 10:22 AM IST
• Indians get most spam calls in the world

  
  16 Jul 2017 09:55 AM IST
• Indians among laziest in world, walk barely 4,300 steps a day

  
  14 Jul 2017 11:50 AM IST
• Squat it like Beckham! Meet the yoga trainer who shaped the football icon

  
  21 Jun 2017 10:45 AM IST
• Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: How Indore took on dirt - and won

  
  04 Jun 2017 10:41 AM IST
• Here's how these Haryana girls brought the govt to its knees

  
  21 May 2017 12:04 PM IST
• Startup says bai-bai to Bollywood stars

  
  19 Apr 2017 12:52 PM IST
• Why Hindutva's foreign-born cheerleaders are so popular

  
  09 Apr 2017 12:03 PM IST
• Not only are these couples breaking a taboo, but are proving a point about love too

  
  02 Apr 2017 12:59 PM IST
• Is the new-age woman still intimidated by the corporate predator?

  
  20 Mar 2017 12:12 PM IST
• 9.8 lakh RTIs filed last year, but 40 per cent of them junked

  
  18 Mar 2017 11:57 AM IST