Deep Mukherjee

Deep Mukherjee is a senior journalist, presently associated with The Wire as an assistant editor. He has long served as the Rajasthan correspondent for The Indian Express and has also worked with Hindustan Times and DNA. He covers issues of national importance, pertaining primarily to politics, human rights, gender, atrocities against marginalized communities, impact of government policies and schemes, labour and farmer suicides. A UNICEF Development Journalism Fellowship awardee, Deep has highlighted the plight of child labourers working in the lac bangle industry in Jaipur and stone quarries of Rajasthan through his investigative reportage. He constantly strives to illuminate those perspectives that usually remain confined to the periphery or get lost in the din of the mainstream, especially oppressed voices and the daily struggles of the underprivileged. His work is aimed at mapping the political and administrative history of various communities through the narrativization and contextualization of individual experiences.

Aside from his journalistic endeavours, Deep occasionally writes for literary journals and opinion pieces for news outlets and loves to travel.