She sinks in her beige sofa with green motifs and leans on the olive green cushions. In a tastefully done house decorated with Arab motifs and traditional jharokhas, she sits amid artefacts collected from different parts of the world by her family. Attired in casual blue denims and a striped shirt, she juggles between two phones and her laptop, checking for communication from her office, her lawyers and journalists’ bodies. In Navi Mumbai, the satellite city of Mumbai, Rana Ayyub, a 41-year old journalist working with The Washington Post, is not a new face for the police.
Being a journalist for over two decades, she has done investigative reporting on Gujarat riots, written on Manipur riots, India’s Muslims, Hindu nationalism, and has received international recognition for her book Gujarat Files. She has faced online harassment for years and has been doxed by ‘Hindu nationalist handles’. In 2022, Ms.
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