Welcome to the website of award-winning journalist and author Nilanjana Bhowmick. Bhowmick has spent more than two decades writing and reporting on current affairs, politics, gender, and climate change for TIME, BBC, National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, New Internationalist, Reuters Alertnet, the Christian Science Monitor, Daily Beast, New Scientist, Business Insider, The Wire, ABP Online, Times of India, etc.
Her books “Lies Our Mothers Told Us” (Aleph, 2022) and “How Not To Be A Superwoman” (Penguin, 2024) examine the quiet and not-so-quiet burdens placed on women – the expectations they internalise, the generational silence they inherit, and the resilience they build. Two new books are slated for release in 2026. And another one is in the works for 2027.
She is a TEDx speaker.
“I write to question. I write to remember. I write to document for women and girls who will come after me. I write to hold a mirror to the stories we grew up with – and the stories we were never allowed to tell” – Nilanjana Bhowmick
Nilanjana Bhowmick is on Substack. Subscribe to read her jottings on gender, power, and inequalities.
