Nikita Jain

Nikita Jain is a Delhi-based journalist who writes about gender, conflict, politics, the environment and human rights in India. She won the Laadli Media Award in 2022 and 2023.

The spiral of attacks and allegations between Manipur’s Nagas and Kukis

Since February this year, Kukis and Nagas have reignited old animosities, adding to the ethnic violence and armed hostilities in Manipur

By Nikita Jain

/ 2 Oct 2026

The spiral of attacks and allegations between Manipur’s Nagas and Kukis

India’s deadly war on Naxalites and Adivasis in Chhattisgarh

Operation Kagar, India’s escalating anti-Naxalite campaign in Chhattisgarh, leaves Adivasis reeling from repression, displacement, killings and other violence by state authorities and security forces

By Nikita Jain

/ 22 Jul 2025

Adivasi woman, at a government hospital in Chhattisgarh after she stepped on an IED planted due to India anti-Naxalite or Mao