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Purvi Thacker

Trip:: Nepal 2015
Affiliation:: Freelance/The New York Times
Country:: Nepal
Year:: 2015

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Purvi Thacker is a reporter/writer for Women in the World, a new digital platform launched by Tina Brown in collaboration with The New York Times and hosted on the NYT website. Her work has appeared in Al Jazeera English, Vice News, Al Jazeera America, The Express Tribune, and India Abroad, among others. She has reported on a range of topics including Yezidi persecution in Iraq, minority rights for the Hazara community in Pakistan, social justice campaigns and gender issues in India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s maiden visit to the United States. Thacker previously worked with the Committee to Protect Journalists as part of their social media team and covered the United Nations 67th Annual General Assembly as part of their webcast team. She was also former senior correspondent at The Times of India in Mumbai, where she is originally from. Thacker graduated with an MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is passionate about Sufi music, photography, human rights and animals.

Stories

A Kathmandu Crematorium Is Struggling to Cope With the Earthquake’s Dead

by Thacker, Purvi | May 04, 2015

The blackened funeral pyres by the Bagmati river at Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu’s largest Hindu open air crematorium, haven’t stopped burning all week. Grey-white pungent smoke billows in the...
After Earthquake in Nepal, Sanitary Menstruation Practices at Risk

by Thacker, Purvi | May 01, 2015

In the Himalayan foothill district of Sindhupalchok, the village of Chautara is a ghost town after most of its inhabitants moved to a makeshift encampment in the wake of the 7.8-magnitude...
Visiting the Nepali Villages Struggling with Staggering Losses in Earthquake Aftermath

by Thacker, Purvi | May 01, 2015

Approximately three hours from the center of Kathmandu, via the Arniko Highway toward China, is the Himalayan district of Sindhupalchowk, where the death toll from Saturday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake has exceeded that...
Women in Nepal Look to Rebuild and Recover in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake

by Thacker, Purvi | April 30, 2015

According to the U.N., the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that ravaged Nepal on Saturday has impacted more than eight million people. The death toll has climbed over 5,500, CNN reported ...;