Aarti Betigeri
Biography
Publications
Aarti Betigeri is a multi-platform journalist and former foreign correspondent based in Canberra. She is a correspondent for Monocle and contributes to various other local and foreign media outlets. She recently returned to Australia after almost a decade in India, where she reported across South Asia for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, the Christian Science Monitor, Public Radio International, and many others. She has interviewed three world leaders and worked on major investigative journalism initiatives including an ABC Foreign Correspondent documentary on international surrogacy. Prior to moving to India, she was a television news journalist and presenter with the ABC and SBS.
Favourites of 2020: Capturing a precarious moment
Documentary photographers have the toughest of briefs – a still image of an ever changing world.
Putting the caste system in its place
Recent events have brought renewed attention to the injustices of India’s social hierarchy, and similar codes elsewhere.
A real-life Bollywood soap opera, with a political twist
A popular actor’s death has cast suspicion on India’s film industry, and conveniently helped leaders shift the plot.
India puts relations with Japan back on the rails
A project to build bullet train lines across India is part of a burgeoning trans-Asian partnership.
The Democrat and the world’s biggest democracy
Indians have embraced the US vice-presidential nominee as one of their own, even if her politics might clash.
India, Australia and containing the China challenge
Joint war games in the Indian Ocean are not symbolic – and the message isn’t lost on Beijing.
India’s TikTok stars collateral damage in Chinese app ban
The move signals that decades of appeasement towards China by a succession of Indian leaders is coming to an end.
Australians look to India more – and don’t always like what they see
Doubts about Indian democracy and its politics suggest the Morrison government has some persuading to do.
India’s Covid-19 tracing app: Power in the right hands?
Download rates for tracing apps can also be read to indicate how much trust there is in government.