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Rohini Mohan

India Correspondent

Rohini writes about politics, business, the environment and human rights. For more than 20 years, she has written for publications including Time, Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Economic Times and The Hindu. She joined The Straits Times in 2019. She has won several journalism awards, including the 2020 Fetisov award for investigative reporting, and the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Media Person in 2019. She is the author of the award-winning The Seasons Of Trouble (2014), a non-fiction book on the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.

Latest articles

South Indian state Andhra Pradesh launches third-child incentives amid ageing population

Children in Andhra Pradesh learning English.

Iran conflict hits Indians as dosas disappear amid cooking gas shortage

Buyers queue for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) at a depot in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Monday, March 16, 2026. India is the second-largest importer of LPG in the world and is suffering acute shortages of the fuel, used in cooking gas and industrial processes.

How to get a billion passengers to fly in India

‘I’ll do my job or someone else will take it’: Why many Asians are staying put in the Gulf amid war

Smoke rising after an Iranian drone was intercepted over the Bahrain Financial Harbour, which houses the Israeli embassy, on March 6.

What lessons can India take from SE Asian nations in attracting foreign investments?

TOPSHOT - A pedestrian walks past a digital screen displaying a broadcast of the budget speech by Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai on February 1, 2026. India will spend a record $133 billion on infrastructure, the finance minister unveiled in her national budget speech, with plans for new high-speed train links and tech investments. The world's most populous country sees massive infrastructure spending as key to sustaining its high growth rate by boosting domestic manufacturing and creating millions of new jobs. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP)

India’s Kerala state rolls out new form of identification: Protection or exclusion?

A voter having her documents verified at a polling station during India's general election in Wayanad district, Kerala, on April 26, 2024.

Shrinking sales: US’ biggest shrimp supplier India, rocked by tariffs, seeks new markets

Shrimp accounts for two-thirds of India’s seafood exports, making the shellfish the backbone of Indian marine trade. 

Not ‘Indian’ enough: Lynch mobs in India find a new target

Unlike the far-right attacks over the past decade that targeted minority communities in India for their race, caste or faith, mob violence today is defined by a new, warped xenophobia.

As Tamil film star Vijay’s legal troubles mount, some see a political conspiracy at play 

Vijay’s party, Tamilaga Vetri Kalagam (TVK), is untested in elections, but its vote share could determine who forms the next state government.

In India’s race for development, elephants are losing out as their habitat fragments

An elephant died after it was hit by a train in the eastern state of Assam, India, on Dec 20, 2025. PHOTO: REUTERS