Women in Conflict Zones
Barkha Dutt, Jasmina Tesanovic, Paro Anand, Rashmi Saksena with Humra Quraishi
Barkha Dutt
Bio
Barkha Dutt is an award-winning TV journalist and anchor with more than two decades of reporting experience. She is the author of “This Unquiet Land: Stories from India’s Fault Lines.” Dutt is based in New Delhi.
Jasmina Tešanović
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Jasmina Tesanovic is a Feminist and political activist (Women in Black; CodePink) and a writer, journalist, musician, translator and film director. In 1978 she promoted the first feminist conference in Eastern Europe, “Drug-ca Zena” (Belgrade). With Slavica Stojanovic she designs and creates the first feminist publishing house in the Balkans, “Feminist 94?, lasting for 10 years. She is the author of “Diary of a Political Idiot”, translated in 12 languages: a real time war diary written during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo. Since then she has been publishing her works on blogs and other media, always connected to the Internet.
One of the founders of Casa Jasmina, smart home of the future, in Turin, author of the manifesto and movement Internet of Women Things, IoWT. She writes in three languages and lives between Turin, Belgrade and Austin.
Paro Anand
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Paro Anand is a Bal Sahitya Puraskar winner. She has written books for children, young adults and adults. She also works with children in schools and NGOs, through her program Literature in Action and holds a world record for helping over three thousand children make the world’s longest newspaper. She has been awarded for her contribution to children’s literature by The Russian Centre for Science and Culture. No Guns at my Son’s Funeral, opened to rave reviews, was on the International Board on Books for Young People Honour List, has been translated into German and French, and is being adapted for cinema. The Little Bird who held the Sky up with his Feet was on the 1001 Books to Read before You Grow Up, an international gold standard of the world’s best books ever. Wingless has been performed nationally and internationally. She has authored Like Smoke, The Other, Nomad’s Land and co-authored Two with Orjan Persson.
Rashmi Saksena
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Rashmi Saksena, author ‘ She Goes to War: Women Militants of India’.
Veteran journalist Rashmi Saksena is a pioneer amongst women newsgatherers in India. She joined the Hindustan Times (Delhi) in 1971 and was the third women reporter in the city. From being the first crime reporter she moved on to cover politics, foreign affairs besides gender issues. She has done challenging assignments from covering surrender of dacoits, elections, insurgencies, international events and women related topics. She has exclusives to her credit in each field. Rashmi has reported for the Telegraph from Sri Lanka and worked in the Delhi bureau of Sunday,Sunday Mail and The Week. Currently she is the Consulting Editor of The Hitavada. Rashmi has won several awards for reporting.
Humra Quraishi
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Humra Quraishi is a Delhi based writer – columnist – journalist. Her books include a book on the Kashmir Valley , Kashmir: The Untold Story ; a volume of her collective writings, Views: Yours and Mine ; a short story collection , More Bad Time Tales ; a volume , Divine Legacy : Dagars & Dhrupad ; debut novel – Meer … Her short stories have been published in several magazines and journals. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous : Profiles ; Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh.
Her take on what’s it like to be a singleton in today’s turbulent times is part of the Penguin published anthology- Chasing the Good Life:On Being Single And one of her essays , The State Can’t Snatch Away our Children, is part of the Zubaan published anthology – Of Mothers And Others .And in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots – 1984 :In Memory and Imagination , her essay is titled -Why Not a Collective Cry for Justice !