Making News, Breaking News, Her Own Way: Stories by Winners of the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shubha Singh

Shubha Singh is a journalist and has worked with two leading Indian newspapers for over two decades. It is her family’s connection with Fiji Islands spanning four generations (her great grandparents went to Fiji in 1885) hat has kept alive her interest in the Indian diaspora. When has lived and worked in Fiji in the 1970s when her father, Bhagwan Singh was posted as India’s High Commissioner to Fiji. She has traveled extensively as a journalist, taking special interest in regions that have large settlements of overseas Indians, such as Mauritius, south Africa, the Caribbean, USA, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the south Pacific. The May 2000 coup in Fiji led her to undertake a closer analysis of the reasons why multi-racial governments in Fiji had been overthrown twice within 13 years. In 2001 she wrote a critically acclaimed book titled Fiji: A Precarious Coalition. She has also produced a 54-minuite documentary film titled Crosscurrents: A Fijian Travelogue. Shubha Singh was awarded the Chameli Dei Award for best women journalist in 1995 for her “perceptive and analytical writing on foreign affairs” . she was the fellow of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata. She is now a columnist, writing on foreign affairs and politics for two Indian newspapers.

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Title
Making News, Breaking News, Her Own Way: Stories by Winners of the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9789381626498
Length
xii+321p., 20cm.
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