Of taking down DPs, ignoring I-Love-Yous, and making the ‘evil’ within the Internet your friend when you are at work as a rural journalist.

With their necessary familiarity with mobile technologies and digital networks, the Khabar Lahariya reporter negotiates new spaces and new relationships in her work, cultivating sources and colleagues at odd hours, on WhatsApp and Facebook, bending notions of sexual convention – based on age, caste, class, geography – out of shape.