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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.
The Most Dangerous Place: A History Of The United States In South Asia
The podcast is a detailed interview with historian author Srinath Raghavan.
It tries to answer the questions: How does the US fit into the current crisis in the South Asian region? Why is South Asia the most dangerous place on earth? (Hint: three nuclear powers neighbouring each other.) How are American attitudes towards South Asia evolving? Most importantly, how should they evolve?
The book traces 250 years of American involvement in present day India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Right from the formation of the US, the country had an interest in the subcontinent.
"For over 200 years, America has been interested in South Asia across three separate axes: power, ideology and culture."
Does the US have a hierarchical and racial superiority when it comes to its involvement in South Asia?And lastly, what has Donald Trump done to change the US's perception of the region?
These questions have long and complicated answers. To have raised these questions is an important addition to public discourse. But the author tries to answer some of them at great length, rather convincingly.
Chronology without the process.a narration lacking depth on the workings of ideological conflict or the comprehensive sweep.this sounds like a 1vs1 or 2vs1 etc dogfight in the international arena restricted to India, Pakistan, America and China or Russia en passage. The underdevelopment and resultant politics of the sub -continent needed political formulations which have gotten cursory mention.a typical approach of a science student into the world of social sciences.