Romita Saluja is an independent journalist in India. Her work includes longform investigations, narrative nonfiction, and cross-border collaborations that explore the themes of gender, development, health, labour, migration, modern slavery and human rights. It has appeared in The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Missing Perspectives, BBC, The Washington Post, Ms Magazine, Undark Magazine, Al Jazeera, South China Morning Post, The Telegraph, The Atlantic Citylab, Middle East Eye, Scroll, and others.
She was a Chevening South Asia Journalism fellow in London in 2024, a Maynard 200 fellow in 2022, and a One World Media Fellow in 2021. Her work has also been supported by fellowships and grants from the Journalism Centre for Global Trafficking, International Women’s Media Foundation, International Center for Journalists, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and Population Reference Bureau.
She won Save the Children’s Global Media Award in the international category in 2024.
