Mansi Choksi

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Mansi Choksi is a freelance journalist who writes about gender, politics, crime and social justice. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, Vice News, Al Jazeera English, Foreign Policy and other publications. She grew up in Mumbai, India, and holds a master’s degree in magazine writing as Fulbright Fellow to the Columbia Journalism School in New York. Previously, she worked at the Times of India, the world’s largest selling English daily, and contributed to an anthology on Asia’s largest slum. In 2016, Mansi and Kim Wall received a grant through IWMF's Reporting Grants for Women's Stories to report on women's roles in conflict in Sri Lanka. Wall was killed on August 10, 2017 while reporting in Copenhagen, Denmark. To see her work, please drop by www.mansichoksi.com.

Highlights

Reporting

| Kim Wall, Mansi Choksi

A Chance to Rewrite History: The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers

Illustration by Cornelia Li Kim Wall and Mansi Choksi met at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2012. Mansi returned to India after graduation and Kim soon followed; it was the start of a writing…
| Kim Wall, Mansi Choksi

Inside the Ugandan Mall at the Center of China’s East African Investments

Mariam Namata’s face was dappled with sweat when she arrived for a job interview at Sunshine Foods, a company that claimed to be Uganda’s first homemade chips manufacturer. It was October 2015, a fierce summer…
| Mansi Choksi

Women in Uganda Can’t Use Toilets Without Fear of Disease or Rape

Mary Businge was in the doctor’s seat, diagnosing a patient, when the municipal workers arrived. They were in a foul mood as they rolled up their sleeves and descended into a trench filled with sewage.…
| Mansi Choksi

Yellow pigs make a political point about youth unemployment in Uganda

KAMPALA, Uganda – In February , two leaders of a guerrilla movement here traveled to the financial district carrying a wooden container that contained three pigs, each painted yellow from snout to tail. At a…