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Raksha Kumar is a multimedia journalist focusing on human rights, politics and social injustices. Since 2011, she has reported for The New York Times, BBC, Guardian, TIME, South China Morning Post, Foreign Policy, Scroll.in and The Hindu.
In March 2018, she was awarded the National Foundation for India Media Award for her reportage on land rights in India. In 2017, she was shortlisted for Kurt Schork Memorial Awards in International Journalism. For her work on land conflicts in India, she was awarded the Chameli Devi Award for Outstanding Media Personality in 2016.
As a reporter, her focus areas are land and forest rights of the most vulnerable communities. However, since these issues cannot be looked at in isolation, Raksha found herself increasingly reporting on armed conflict around resource extraction in places like Chhattisgarh and Kashmir.
In 2015, she wrote, shot and directed a documentary film on Rationalists in Contemporary India. It was aired by India's public broadcaster, Doordarshan. The film has been screened in 29 locations across the country until now.
The same year, Raksha was selected as a Chevening Fellow by the University of Westminster to research on Hindu Right in the UK. This helped Raksha build on her post graduate dissertation which was on Hindu Fundamentalists in India.
With a Fulbright Scholarship for Leadership Development, she went to the Columbia University in New York City to pursue a Masters in Science. As a student, she was offered the Scripps Howard Fellowship to report from Israel and the West Bank. Since 2011, Raksha has reported from 11 countries across the world.
Raksha worked as an editor at NDTV, leading English news channel in India. She was the editorial head of a two-hour prime time news show, where she lead a team of about 20 junior journalists.
A graduate of Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi, Raksha was a dedicated student and a passionate public speaker.
When Rudy Giuliani Was On A Panel With Putin Advisors
A fantastic podcast by ProPublica and WNYC that investigates transgressions in the Trump administration. The journalists who put together this episode of the podcast reached out to more than a dozen people who knew Rudy Giuliani and came up with a sketch of the man who is a well-known caricature. 'What does Giuliani do (beyond appearing on TV)?' is the moot question. Why is Giuliani Trump's personal lawyer, who is allegedly working without pay? What does Giuliani's involvement have to do with the federal investigation against the Leader of the Free World?
This is what the podcast has to say about Giuliani's role:
He has often traveled to Russia or other former Soviet states as guests of powerful players there. And since Trump was elected, he appears to have stepped up the frequency of those trips.
Since Giuliani was the mayor of New York City when 9/11 happened, the podcast draws an arc of his life from that high point of his career.
It eventually reaches a point when Giuliani lands up as Trump's unpaid attorney. What was Giuliani doing on a panel discussion in Armenia with Putin's close advisors?
The reporters do not know much. But, what they do know about his trips to Armenia is this:
"... a company called TriGlobal Strategic Ventures claims credit for organizing the trips. Abramyan is on TriGlobal’s board, as is a former Russian government minister."
