A discussion featuring three eminent journalists from India: Kalpana Sharma, Anuradha Bhasin, and Raghu Karnad.
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SPEAKER BIOS
Kalpana Sharma is an independent journalist and author based in Mumbai. In over four decades as a journalist, she has worked with Himmat Weekly, the Indian Express, the Times of India, and The Hindu, and as Consulting Editor with Economic & Political Weekly. She is the author of Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum (2000), and has edited Single by Choice: Happily Unmarried Women (2019), Missing: Half the Story, Journalism as if Gender Matters (2010). She has also co-edited Whose News?: The Media and Women’s Issues (1994/2006), and Terror Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out (2003). Kalpana Sharma was in residence at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism as a Visiting Faculty in Spring 2014 where she taught a course titled, International Reporting: India.
Anuradha Bhasin is an Indian journalist based in the city of Jammu. She is the executive editor of the Kashmir Times, one of the oldest English dailies in the region of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Under her leadership, the newspaper has continued to maintain an independent voice despite many threats and intimidations from state and non-state actors amidst an ongoing violent conflict. When the government of India blocked internet and phone service in the region in 2019, Bhasin launched a court challenge while leading her newsroom through finding ways to keep publishing in spite of the blackout. More targeted efforts to intimidate Bhasin and colleagues continued, including raids on their homes and offices and forcing the Kashmir Times to vacate its Srinagar offices and stop publishing one of its editions. Bhasin has worked at the Times her entire journalism career, starting out as a reporter trainee. She was among the first journalists to have done in depth investigation into the impact of landmines on the lives of the people living on the borders and psychological impact of the Kashmir conflict.
Raghu Karnad is an Indian journalist and writer, and a recipient of the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction. He is a 2022-’23 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His book, Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War , was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for a writer in English in 2016, and shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize in the same year. His articles and essays have won international awards including the Lorenzo Natali Journalism Prize in 2008, the Press Institute of India National Award for Reporting on the Victims of Armed Conflict in 2008, and a prize from the inaugural Financial Times-Bodley Head Essay Competition in 2012. Karnad was previously the editor of Time Out Delhi. He has also contributed articles to The New Yorker , The Atlantic , Granta and The Guardian .In 2015, he was part of the founding team of The Wire (India) , and later held the position of Chief of Bureau in New Delhi.
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