Kalpana Sharma

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Kalpana Sharma
Born1949
NationalityIndian
Years active1972 to Present
Employer(s) The Indian Express, The Times of India, and The Hindu
Known for Journalist, editor, and writer
Awards1987 - Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons

Kalpana Sharma (born 1947) is an Indian journalist, editor, and writer. Currently freelance, she has worked with several Indian dailies, including The Indian Express, The Times of India , and The Hindu, where she was a deputy editor and chief of the Mumbai bureau. In 1987, she received the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons. She has written and edited several books of reportage from India, including Rediscovering Dharavi (2000), which consists of reporting about Dharavi, a large slum in the city of Mumbai, India, and The silence and the storm: narratives of violence against women in India (Aleph 2019).[ citation needed ]

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Career

Sharma began her career in print journalism in 1972, working with Himmat Weekly , a local publication in Mumbai, where she was editor during the Emergency, and faced censorship of their content by governmental authorities. [1] [2] She went on to work at the Indian Express as the editor of their Sunday supplement, Express Magazine, and at The Times of India, where she was a senior assistant editor. [1] She later worked for The Hindu, where, in addition to reporting, she was Deputy Editor, and Chief of their Mumbai bureau. [3] Currently working independently, her journalism has focused on environmental, developmental and gender issues. [3] She has also been a consulting editor for Economic and Political Weekly , a peer-reviewed social sciences journal in India. [3] In 2018, she became a readers' editor at Scroll.in , a news and reporting website from India, where she took on responsibility for responding to readers' concerns and complaints, replacing C Rammanohar Reddy. [1] She has written a column reporting on gender issues in India titled The Other Half, which was published by The Indian Express from 1985 onwards, and later in The Hindu, until 2016. [1]

Sharma won the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons, a journalism award, in 1987. [4] [5] She has been a visiting faculty member at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. [6]

As an author, Sharma published Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum (Penguin, 2000), which consisted of reporting about Dharavi, a large slum in Mumbai, India. [7] In 2019, she edited a volume of personal essays of notable women in India who had chosen not to marry, titled Single by Choice (Women Unlimited). [8] [9] It included essays by the author, Bama; sports journalist Sharda Ugra, social worker and designer Laila Tyabji, journalist Freny Maneckshaw, sociologist Sujata Patel, and others. [10] [11]

Personal life

Sharma was born in 1947, and lives in Mumbai, India. [9]

Bibliography

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  2. ↑ Sharma, Kalpana. "'Himmat' during the Emergency: When the Press crawled, some refused to even bend". Scroll.in. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Kalpana Sharma". The Hindu. 26 January 2013. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  4. ↑ "Sharma Kalpana". Penguin Random House India. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  5. ↑ Ravindranath, Sushila (29 April 2012). "Does a journalist's gender matter?". Indian Express . Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  6. ↑ "Kalpana Sharma". UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  7. ↑ Roell, Sophie (12 October 2021). "The best books on Mumbai recommended by Saumya Roy". Five Books.
  8. ↑ Balasubramanian, Malavika (17 July 2019). "Marriage? No, thank you: meet the women who are single by choice". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  9. 1 2 Aravind, Indulekha. "There is a big misconception that single women aren't contented: Journalist Kalpana Sharma". The Economic Times. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  10. ↑ "Single by Choice: Happily Unmarried Women!". womenunlimited.in. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  11. ↑ "'There is a world of women who can't write their own stories': Kalpana Sharma". The Indian Express. 23 July 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  12. ↑ Sharma, Supriya. "Telling the Untold review". The Book Review Literary Trust. New Delhi. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  13. ↑ Namrata (20 January 2020). "Book Review: The Silence And The Storm By Kalpana Sharma". Feminism In India. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
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