Fellows & Editors
Purvi Thacker
- Trip:
- Ecuador 2015
- Affiliation:
- BuzzFeed News
- Country:
- Ecuador
- Year:
- 2015
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Purvi Thacker is a reporter for BuzzFeed News in New York. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, Vice News, Quartz, Al Jazeera America, The Express Tribune, and India Abroad, among others. Her dispatches from Nepal post-earthquake included disaster relief and rescue efforts, as well as women's health issues. 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 on issues of press freedom and impunity. 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.
Thacker was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Neapl in 2015.
Stories
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How an Ecuadorian Prison Radio Show Is Changing Women’s Lives
{image-1} Inmates at the Center for Social Rehabilitation record Palabra Libre. Photo: Ministry of Justice The anchor’s raspy voice is distinctly Colombian. She pauses for a brief second and...
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Here’s What Ecuadorians Think of Julian Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual assault and the rape of two...
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A Kathmandu Crematorium Is Struggling to Cope With the Earthquake’s Dead
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...
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After Earthquake in Nepal, Sanitary Menstruation Practices at Risk
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...
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Visiting the Nepali Villages Struggling with Staggering Losses in Earthquake Aftermath
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...
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Women in Nepal Look to Rebuild and Recover in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake
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 ...;
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