Reetika Revathy Subramanian is a PhD candidate and Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies. Her work, spanning different media and platforms, straddles the areas of early and forced marriages, labour migration, and the climate crisis in South Asia. She is the founder and host of the Climate Brides Podcast, co-creator of the multi-lingual comic book ‘Raindrop in the Drought: Godavari Dange’, and the co-convenor of the Grammars of Marriage and Desire research network. Her work has appeared in several publications including Hindustan Times, The Caravan, Scroll.in, People’s Archive of Rural India, India Exclusion Report (2020) and Subversions Journal (2017). In recognition of her outstanding research and leadership, she has won multiple accolades, including the Bill Gates Sr. Prize 2022, Movements and Moments: Feminist Generations grant 2021, Bell Scholar Prize 2017, Chevening Award 2016, and the Charpak Scholarship of Excellence 2014.
