Previously
India Film Project
Journalist, Editor & Columnist
Rituparna Chatterjee is an award-winning editor and columnist with over twenty years of experience reporting from the Indian subcontinent on gender and civil rights, feminist movements, politics, and culture. She was one of the founding editors of HuffPost in India, works as Deputy Asia Editor at The Independent, is a mentor at Centre for Social Research, and representative at Reporters Without Borders. She was named by Forbes in their 2019 list as one of their Women Power Trailblazers and awarded the REX Karmaveer Global Fellowship and Karmaveer Chakra gold medal instituted by iCONGO in Partnership with the United Nations for her work with sexual violence survivors and as a change-maker. She is the winner of the Laadli Media and Advertising Awards for gender reporting in 2021 for a web feature on menstrual equity. She is the winner of the Orange Flower Award by Women's Web for writing on 'women at work'. She was recognised in 2022 by Twitter and Sayfty.org as among 17 Indian Women Changemakers working towards the UN SDGs. She runs an online platform @IndiaMeToo to chronicle India's crisis of sexual violence that amplifies a spectrum of voices.