Radhika Iyengar

Arts. Culture. Lifestyle

Radhika Iyengar is an award-winning journalist based in Mumbai, who writes on arts, culture, design and lifestyle.

Radhika holds a Master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York.

Her work has been published in Al Jazeera, Atlas Obscura, Netflix, Hyperallergic, Vogue, Architectural Digest,Conde Nast Traveller, The Nod, Mint Lounge, Esquire, Platform magazine, Open magazine, Christian Science Monitor, among other publications.

Her debut non-fiction book, ‘Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras’, which chronicles the lives of a community of corpse-burners called the Doms in Banaras, is published by HarperCollins, India (September 2023), has won significant praise.

She has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, writing residencies and fellowships.