Karen Dias

Karen Dias is a photojournalist based in her hometown of Mumbai, India. Her main interests lie in documenting human rights issues related to women and the environment. She previously spent 4 years working as a staff photojournalist at the national daily newspaper Gulf News based in Dubai, UAE. She has been a participant in the Angkor Photo Workshop and participated in group exhibitions in India, UAE and Indonesia. Since 2012, she has been freelancing for outlets such as the Washington Post, the Caravan, Outlook Traveler, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, BBC, National Geographic Traveler India, and Motherland. Dias will be reporting on the success of women athletes in Haryana, northern India.

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Documenting Haryana’s sportswomen: Patriarchy and feminism in the land of Dangal

Written by Nerrja Deodhar Photos by Karen Dias Physiotherapists, psychologists, good hospitals, and sports medicine are difficult to access in Haryana, if you are a sportwoman who cannot afford them yourself. Haryana is also one…
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The girls of Haryana The sport revolution underway in the state

The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) has awarded 13 female journalists with catalytic grants to report on critical issues affecting women and girls worldwide. As the inaugural grantees for the Reporting Grants for Women’s Stories…
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Wrestling Against Prejudice and Poverty in India

The Indian state of Haryana is known for its tradition of wrestling, but for a long time girls were forbidden to compete. Now a new generation of female wrestlers are standing up to society’s prejudices…
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A League of Their Own

It’s a cold, foggy morning in the village of Mangali, a few hours northwest of New Delhi. Groups of young girls are slowly filing into the pink, brick-walled compound of the Government Girls Senior Secondary…