Journalist · Activist · Environmentalist
Award-winning journalist covering human rights, social justice, and the climate crisis. Author, documentary storyteller, and advocate for the people and places that need it most.
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Dionne Bunsha is an award-winning journalist and author whose work spans the intersections of human rights, environmental justice, and social change. From the coast of Gujarat to the old-growth rainforests of British Columbia, her reporting gives voice to communities confronting violence, displacement, and ecological destruction.
She served as Senior Assistant Editor for Frontline magazine in Mumbai, and her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Hindu, and New Internationalist. Her book Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat remains an essential account of communal violence and its lasting aftermath.
Bunsha holds a Master's in Resource and Environmental Management from Simon Fraser University and an M.Sc. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. She is a Knight International Journalism Fellow (Stanford, 2008–09) and recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence Awards, the IFJ Journalism for Tolerance Prize, and the PUCL Journalism for Human Rights Award.
Book
"In Scarred, Dionne Bunsha takes us back to Gujarat and reveals the awful routine business of everyday fascism."
— Arundhati Roy
A deeply reported account of the 2002 Gujarat violence and its aftermath, Scarred examines how communal hatred is manufactured, sustained, and resisted. Through first-hand reporting and the voices of survivors, Bunsha reveals the human toll of political violence and the quiet courage of those who rebuild.
Penguin India, 2006
Writing
Photography
Documentary photography from the field — communities, landscapes, and the textures of everyday resistance.
Sabarkantha
Clayoquot Sound
Coastal Gujarat
Gangotri
Himalaya
Gangotri Glacier
Bella Bella
Himalayan Landscape
Sugarcane Fields
Gangotri
Vidarbha
Beej Bachao