Meenakshi J is an independent journalist based out of Shillong [a beautiful petite city in northeast India]. She writes and reports on community health, people, solutions , gender, food science and travel. Her work appears in The New York Times, Nature Medicine, National Geographic, The British Medical Journal, Smithsonian, Hakai Magazine, BBC, The Guardian, Nikkei Asia, among many others. Get in touch with her @polkajunction on Instagram.