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is intended for journalists who have made significant
contributions in English and any Indian language,
towards any branch or facet of journalism or to
the art and science of communication during the
preceding three years. Daring and adventurous journalism,
a fresh and original approach to obtaining authentic
news of important events, news editing, editorial
comments, articles on subjects pertaining to history,
economics, archaeology, philosophy, the science
of living, human behaviour, environment, cartoons,
sports, art cinema, television and other communication
media and critical assessment of publications etc.
will be considered.
Last three years Awardees
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2008-09
Chitrangada Choudhury |
2009-10
Teresa Rehman |
2010-11
Anahita Mukherji
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Chitrangada
Choudhury is passionate about the good journalism
can do, the power of the news media to enhance the
public sphere and challenge clichés. She finds it
most fulfilling to work on long-form explanatory narratives
and meticulous investigations for her newspaper, the
Hindustan Times. She began her journalistic career
in 2004 at another of India's leading national dailies,
the Indian Express. Based in Mumbai, Chitrangada has
primarily reported stories from that city and Maharashtra,
while also covering issues from other states including
Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Her reportage has
primarily probed public policies and how they play
out in individual lives, as well as power and marginality
in a country in flux.
Her investigative reportage revealing the bleeding
of the state's rural employment guarantee scheme,
corruption in Mumbai's slum rehousing projects, the
abuse of children in welfare institutions, and the
official neglect of historic cave monuments have resulted
in public interest litigations, legislative questions
and police probes. In 2007, a media fellowship awarded
by the National Foundation of India and the American
India Foundation helped her to provide readers an
insight into the harsh lives of distress seasonal
migrants in the villages of Maharashtra, Gujarat and
Western Orissa.
Chitrangada studied History at St. Stephen's College,
Delhi University, and Media Studies at the Centre
for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester,
UK.
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A media person
based in Northeast India, Rehman has consistently
been trying to highlight the myriad hues of this hitherto
unexplored and conflict-torn region that includes
seven states of the country. Her story with vivid
photographs on an alleged fake encounter in Manipur
in June 09, won global acclaim and was picked up by
newspapers and magazines worldwide. The story led
to a civil uprising in Manipur.
She had represented India in a 10-day capacity building
programme titled “Advancing Women’s Leadership
in Global AIDS Policymaking” in the US Congress,
and in the UNHeadquarters.
She had received the Centre for Science and Environment’s
National Media Fellowship on Implementation of the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. She is the
co-ordinator of the Assam chapter of the Network for
Women in Media, India. She is also a member of the
International Women Media Foundation. She also moderates
: Red Ribbon Media, India and The Sanitation Scribes.
An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication,
New Delhi, Rehman has been honoured with many awards
.Teresa is presently working as Principal Correspondent,
Tehelka newsmagazine.
She feels the northeast region is a challenge for
a journalist willing to delve deep into the lives
of the people, their struggle for existence, the unexplored
and untold stories of women, men and children. |
While pursuing
a post-graduate diploma in ‘Social Communications
Media’ at Sophia Polytechnic (Mumbai), Anahita
developed a deep desire to influence people’s
lives through her writing and highlight the inequity
that exists in the education system of our country.
While covering the education beat in TOI Mumbai edition
for the last 5 years, she highlights the stark inequality
in the education system, and the contrast between
the schools for the rich and the poor. A graduate
from St Xavier’s College (Mumbai), she has keen
interest in the rapid, systematic and planned decline
of government schools for the poor and a simultaneous
spurt in the international school segment, offering
high-quality, high cost education for the super-rich.
Anahita has focused on cases of land grab in civic
schools, with instances where international schools
have usurped school land as well as numerous cases
where politicians, private schools and NGOs have set
up shop inside deserted schools.
Her assignments have allowed her to travel to parts
of rural Maharashtra to highlight innovative experiments
in quality education for children with little or no
access to schools. She has extensively analysed the
delay in passing the Right to Education Act as well
as the hurdles in the path to universalizing education.
At a time when there has been stiff opposition to
the clause which makes it mandatory for private schools
to reserve seats for the underprivileged, she has
highlighted the complete lack of social integration
in Mumbai’s elite schools, where even the upper
middle class feel deprived in comparison to their
super-rich peers. |
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