Arpan Rai is a correspondent for The Independent based out of India. She covers human rights issues, political affairs and wildlife conservation efforts and tracks other big stories from Asia. She has also covered the Ukraine war in daily live blogs for The Independent. Prior to this, she has worked with the digital arm of India’s leading daily Hindustan Times, news website The Quint and New Delhi’s only tabloid Mail Today, and covered gender issues, education rights and India’s federal administration.