Amir Malik, freelance journalist for over five years, is the 2022 nominee for The Human Rights & Religious Freedom Journalism Awards, US. A storyteller, he derives his passion from peoples’ lives, their courageous ways to outsmart death everyday. He believes journalism is a tool of resistance of people against power. Amir goes where stories are. As a freelance journalist, he has experienced that ‘beat journalism’ limits journalism. In the field of storytelling in India, where stories are abundant, there’s hardly any limit to the number of stories one would get to write. Amir has covered covid pandemic in Delhi and the historic farmers’ protests at the gates of Delhi and investigative crimes of the power during the Delhi riots 2020. He has reported from Punjab, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu — in all rural India.