Articles by Archita Raghu

Archita is Senior Reporter at Citizen Matters in Chennai. She has earlier worked with The New Indian Express and feminist news organisation BehanBox, writing on a variety of topics including health risks in Ennore, food history of Dalit and Bahujan communities, delimitation, women's reproductive health and Thozhi hostels in Tamil Nadu. Archita holds degrees from the Asian College of Journalism and St Joseph’s University, Bengaluru.

A year on, how has the Ennore restoration project fared in Chennai’s toxic hotspot?

by December 13, 2025

In 2015, when her infant daughter began wheezing, Subashini R purchased a machine she had only ever seen in hospitals. Daily trips from Kattukuppam in north Chennai to Tondiarpet Hospital were expensive, costing at least ₹500 then. Although the nebuliser cost four times her daily healthcare expenses, it reduced long-term costs in a region struggling with the lasting effects of pollution. “Every doctor tells locals to leave the region due to the chemicals here,” says the activist, part of the Save Ennore Creek Campaign. A decade later, nearly every household in Ennore has a nebuliser. Her younger daughter now suffers…

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