In a world driven by caste and patriarchy, Khabar Lahariya is a news portal that is run by marginalised women of India. Their lives have been chronicled by documentary filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh in their film, Writing With Fire which will be screened at a suburban venue later this week.

Rintu Thomas, co-director of the film, talks about what inspired her to film the lives of the reporters of Khabar Lahariya, “When we were invited to meet the reporting team of the news organisation in Uttar Pradesh, we were deeply moved — not just by their journalism, but by the radical act of being themselves in spaces that were never built to hold them. These are marginalised women navigating caste, patriarchy and a digital world, all at once — and doing it with clarity, humour and a sense of purpose. These were themes that aligned with our own interests as filmmakers.”