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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.
Societal Change in the Digital Age
How do we change societies in the age of technology? Well, with the help of the said technology. The question is, how do we do that? This podcast is a three part series which interviews a wide variety of people across India, who are attempting to bring about significant social changes by using technology.
Known as the back-end of most software technological advances in the world, India has a large population working within the sphere of technology. At the same time, it has dangerously high levels of malnutrition, illiteracy and a skewed sex ratio. For a country that claims to have significantly contributed to building the Silicon Valley in California, it comes naturally to find solutions to social problems with technology.
The first episode looks at individuals who aim high, wanting to bring about social change. The second concentrates on grassroots organisations which is trying to adopt technological changes. And the final one focuses on collaborations.
If you are interested in social change or technology, or even better, trying to bring about fundamental changes through techonolgy, do listen in.
