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Jane Borges is a senior journalist, author and oral historian. In 2022, she won the RedInk Journalism Award. Her debut novel, Bombay Balchão was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar. She co-authored the non-fiction Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of Women from the Ganglands, a chapter from which was adapted into the Bollywood film Gangubai. She is the co-founder of Soboicar, an oral history archive chronicling the lives of Catholics who migrated from the Konkan to South Mumbai. She received the Charles Wallace Writing Fellowship, 2025 at the University of Stirling in Scotland, where she worked on her second novel, Mog Asundi. She currently works at Mumbai Mirror.

Jane Borges
Journalist, Author & Oral Historian, Mumbai
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