Articles by Ankur Paliwal

Ankur Paliwal is an independent journalist, and founder and editor of queerbeat, an award-winning media and research venture that is building public understanding of queerness in India. Before starting queerbeat, Ankur was travelling across India, as well as east and west Africa, reporting longform and investigative features on science, health, gender, sexuality and the environment for various publications including the Guardian, Nature, Scientific American and FiftyTwo. He has a Master’s degree in science journalism from Columbia University in New York and lives in New Delhi.

Beyond Clickbait: A Reporter’s Guide to Representing Queer Lives in Regional Media

November 6, 2025

The TTE-queerbeat Fellowship Programme is a collaboration that seeks to produce, mentor and platform stories by queer folks in Hindi. These stories explore sexuality in the rural context, through the facets of consent, desire, romance and risk, and aim to understand how debates in the wider sexuality discourse and grassroots organisations speak to the realities of queer individuals outside big cities.