Greeshma Kuthar

Greeshma Kuthar is an award-winning independent journalist and trained lawyer from Tamil Nadu, known for her deeply reported stories from India’s most politically complex and underreported regions. Her journalism focuses on power structures, marginalisation, and the changing dynamics of identity politics across the country. With a sharp investigative approach, she has consistently explored how political ideologies and regional aspirations shape the lived realities of communities, especially in areas witnessing socio-political transitions.

Greeshma has reported extensively on grassroots political leadership, conflict, displacement, and the erasure of voices from the margins. Her work often highlights how policy decisions, law enforcement, and state responses intersect with civil liberties and community resilience. She brings to her reporting a legal understanding that enriches her storytelling with context and precision.

In 2024, she was awarded the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediaperson for her searing coverage from Manipur. Her reportage captured the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the region, foregrounding stories of survival, solidarity, and trauma amid ethnic violence. Her ability to centre the voices of those directly affected, especially women and youth, gave national visibility to a crisis that had long remained underreported.

Through her principled and people-first journalism, Greeshma continues to challenge dominant narratives and hold institutions to account, offering nuanced perspectives from the ground.