About

Sidrah is a journalist and documentary filmmaker with a decade long experience working in digital media. Skilled in reporting, shooting, editing, directing, producing films for media networks, NGOs and production houses.  

Sidrah holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Lady Shriram College, Delhi University and a Masters degree in Convergent Journalism from AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. In 2014, she joined Hindustan Times, an English daily as a Video Journalist and Producer as the newspaper was turning digital first.

In 2016 she started freelancing so she could spend more time in the field. Since then she has been working with major international outlets such as- Bloomberg, Financial Times, New York Times, CNN, Aj+,  TRT World, Vox.com, reporting and filming stories from India. 

In 2023, she received the Pulitzer Center’s Breakthrough Journalism Award for her Documentary for Financial Times on heatwaves in India and its impact on people and businesses.

In between journalistic assignments she does video work for NGOs that work in improving education, health and livelihoods through her production studio- The Bay Window Productions.