Fatima Khan
Award-winning investigative journalist who specializes in politics, hate crimes, and social justice. 2025 graduate from Columbia Journalism School in Master's in Political Journalism
Investigation: Tipped Workers Don’t Need Tax Relief. They Need Real Wages | Jacobin
Donald Trump’s No Tax on Tips policy is a major part of his appeal to working-class Americans. But tipping is itself a strange and flawed system invented to preserve inequality, with its roots in slavery. Critics worry Trump’s policy will only intensify tipping culture.
In Three Years, Nearly 2 Lakh Women Went Missing In This Indian State. Here's Why
Climate Change has led to the skyrocketing number of missing women and girls in Madhya Pradesh.
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I am a journalist based in New York, United States, originally from New Delhi, India. I am currently pursuing a Masters in Political Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.I am a roving reporter, who has traveled the length and breadth of India to investigate hate crimes and cover social churnings.I was the winner of the Young Journalist of the Year Award in 2024 at the Human Rights and Religious Freedom Awards (HRRF) held in Chicago. This award was for my year-long coverage of hate crimes in India. I was among the recipients of the prestigious International Press Institute award for my Covid coverage: I spent 45 days straight on the road traveling through the worst-hit states in the country to bring stories of the institutional collapse during the peak of the second Covid wave in 2021. This includes stories of dead bodies floating in rivers and the severe oxygen shortage in hospitals. Prior to that, I won the United Nations Laadli award for outstanding gender reportage in 2020 for my coverage of the rape and murder of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh. For my documentary on the Hijab ban row in Karnataka, I won the Human Rights and Religious Freedom (HRRF) award in Washington DC (2023). I extensively covered the violence during the Delhi riots in 2020 and the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act movement in 2019. I was among the finalists in the international SOPA awards 2024 for my investigation into the erroneous application of the anti-conversion law in India.I am working on my first book: a work of non-fiction reportage. The book is slated for publishing in 2025. I am a South Asia Speaks fellow— a select-mentorship program for emerging writers of the region.
VIDEO INVESTIGATIONS
Documentary | Uttarakhand: The Making Of A 'Hindu-Only’ State
The investigative documentary reveals how the state has used the concept of 'holy land' in Uttarakhand to otherise Muslims and push them to the margins.
Exclusive: Many Anti-Conversion Arrests in Uttar Pradesh Defy the Law They Are Based On
Several thousand priests and ordinary Christians have been arrested under the anti-conversion law. But investigation reveals that many of these arrests go against the very law being used to incriminate them.
Investigation | 10 Years Since These Bloody Riots — Missing Bodies & The Right To Be Declared Dead
A decade after the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, 11 families are still running from pillar to post to get their kin declared dead. The state's gross negligence and murky investigation is to blame.
Documentary | Death Threats, Lost Friendships, Ruined Education—Human Cost of Karnataka's Hijab Ban
In 2022, Karnataka government ordered a ban on hijab in educational institutes of the state. This led to major protests and the lives of the students were changed forever.
‘Sending Us Back To Myanmar Will Be A Death Sentence’: Delhi’s Rohingya Refugees
In India's national capital, Delhi, Rohingya refugees face a precarious existence constantly on the edge with threats of detention.
FEATURE WRITING INVESTIGATIONS
In an Indian State, a Church Pushes an Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theory | NewLines Magazine
Anti-Muslim conspiracy theories once confined to Hindu nationalists are spreading into Christian communities in Kerala.
In Three Years, Nearly 2 Lakh Women Went Missing In This Indian State. Here's Why
Climate Change has led to the skyrocketing number of missing women and girls in Madhya Pradesh.
Taliban back, desperate Kerala families hope couples who fled to Afghanistan for ISIS can return
Kin of those who fled Kerala to join ISIS are worried about what the Taliban will do to them. Here's their story
Exclusive | 'If Indira Could Be Killed, Then...': Owaisi's 'Shooter' Continues To Threaten
An Indian Member of Parliament (MP) was shot at two right-wing men. They were soon let out on bail, and the reporter visited them at their residence and interviewed them amid their flock of supporters. This story was cited in a Supreme Court petition, in response to which his bail was quashed.
Car Owner, Sarpanch, Glass Shards — How Villagers Probed Junaid & Nasir's Death
In February 2023, two Muslim men of the same family- Junaid and Nasir- were kidnapped and subsequently set on fire. Their relatives back home pieced together the mystery of them going 'missing' using various clues.
