Deeksha Bhardwaj

Deeksha Bhardwaj is a political journalist covering policy and governance in New Delhi. Her reporting spans the Election Commission, Parliament, tech policy, cybersecurity, and culture. She has reported from the ground during national and state elections, broken stories on India's data protection legislation and social media policy, and interviewed Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, G. Kishan Reddy, and Anurag Thakur, as well as senior political leaders across the political spectrum. She has extensively covered India's principal opposition parties, with a particular focus on the Congress. She has a keen interest in surveillance reforms and their impact on civil rights. A graduate of Lady Shri Ram College, she holds a Master of Philosophy in Literatures in English from the University of Delhi and was a Fisher Family Fellow at Stanford University's Centre on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Her work explores the intersection of technology, gender, policy, society, and governance.