Rukmini S is an independent data journalist based in Chennai, India. Her work focuses on inequality, gender, caste, and politics. Rukmini was previously National Data Editor of The Hindu newspaper and now writes independently for Indian and international publications. Since March 2020, she has also hosted a pandemic podcast, The Moving Curve.
Rukmini won the Likho Awards for Excellence in Media in 2019. In 2020, she received an Honourable Mention for the Chameli Devi Jain Awards for an Outstanding Woman Journalist. The Moving Curve podcast won an Emergent Ventures COVID-19 India Prize in 2020. Rukmini’s body of work for 2020 was shortlisted for the global data journalism awards, the Sigma Awards 2021. Amazon Westland will publish two of her books, in 2021 and 2022. The first book, Whole Numbers & Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India, will be published in December 2021. Rukmini has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Social Communications Media and an MSc in Development Studies.