Indrani Basu is a journalist at GlobalPost in Boston where she is a Kaiser Family Foundation Global Health Reporting Fellow. She has previously worked as a senior correspondent with India's largest print newspaper, The Times of India, where she wrote about crime, human rights, gender issues and urban development. She has experience covering high-profile political scandals and multiple terror attacks in India. Her investigative reports have influenced and changed government policy in New Delhi.
She holds a masters degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was an Inlaks Foundation Scholar and graduated with honors. She was named "Journalist of the Month" in March 2014 along with five of her colleagues at Columbia for launching a website focusing on the Indian National Elections. She is a newly-minted photographer.