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Meena Menon, deputy bureau chief and deputy editor, The Hindu, Mumbai and NWMI Mumbai member, won the 2012 Tarabai Birje award for women journalists awarded by the daily Marathi paper Janatecha Mahanayak. The award is in the name of Tanubai Birje, a student of Jyotiba Phule, who edited the newspaper Dinbandhu in the early 1900s. Previous winners of the award include Pratima Joshi of Maharashtra Times and Rahi Bhide of Prahaar.
