Tani Bhargava works with a small NGO in India that focusses on the basic needs of those who fall outside the net of large, established NGOs or conventional charities. Earlier she worked a respected Hindi publishing house, where she launched a paperback series on Hindi literature. Her essay, "Crossroads after Crossroads after Crossroads" was published in Ritu Menon's Women who Dared.

Recent articles

What is the connection between elections, democracy, and the life-chances of the poor? Rajeev & Tani Bhargava draw a lesson from India in this, openDemocracy's first article, originally published on 13 May 2001.

American militant foreign policy and the images of Iraqi civilian dead have tipped even India’s prosperous citizens into ferocious denunciation. Tani Bhargava takes the temperature of a significant shift in the political atmosphere.

An Indian’s visit to Bali entailed more than the discovery of another form of Hinduism – it made her see her own homeland with fresh eyes. But after mass tourism and now the terrorist bomb, our South Asia co-columnist asks: what kind of Bali will survive?