Sandhya Ravishankar

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Sandhya Ravishankar is an investigative journalist based in Chennai. She won a Ramnath Goenka award in 2018 for her sustained expose of corruption, illegality and the state-police-miner nexus in the beach mineral mining industry in Tamil Nadu, and has partnered with France-based Forbidden Stories in global investigations such as The Pegasus Project, The Cartel Project and The Green Blood Project. Sandhya has multiple exposes to her credit including the arithmetic error in Jayalalithaa's acquittal and the delay in opening the Chembarambakkam reservoir which led to the 2015 Chennai floods. She has authored an unofficial biography of a former chief minister M. Karunanidhi, titled "Karunanidhi: A Life In Politics". When she is not investigating corruption and threats to the environment, she enjoys the company of her dogs and travels extensively.