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Being a journalist in Karbi Anglong
By Helvellyn Timungpi At the NWMI meeting in Mumbai, February 2024. Photo courtesy: Supriya Unni Nair Helvellyn Timungpi from Diphu, recipient of the Sixth NWMI Fellowship for Women Journalists shares highlights of her journey over the past year. Karbi Anglong is an...
Helvellyn Timungpi of Diphu Conferred Sixth NWMI Fellowship
By Editors The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is pleased to announce that Helvellyn Timungpi has been conferred the Sixth NWMI Fellowship, instituted to support women journalists working in various kinds of challenging situations. Helvellyn Timungpi, 38, is...
NWMI Fellows On Their Experience
By Editors Listen to past fellows Jayanti Buruda (2017), Ambika Raja (2018), Marouf Gazi (2019) and Kavita Katta (2020) speak about the NWMI Fellowship and their experiences.
Photojournalist Akhila Easwaran awarded the 2021 NWMI Fellowship
By Editors The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is very pleased to announce that photojournalist Akhila Easwaran has been conferred the Fifth NWMI Fellowship (2021). The Selection Committee was impressed by Akhila’s sensitive work and bold and enthusiastic...
Kavitha Katta conferred Fourth NWMI Fellowship
By Editors The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is pleased to announced that Telangana-based independent journalist Kavitha Katta, 40, has been conferred the Fourth NWMI Fellowship (2020), instituted to support women journalists working in various kinds of...
I want to inspire others like me: Ambika Raja
NWMI’s 2018 Fellow Ambika Raja was in college when she was in an accident which left her with paraplegia. That didn’t stop her from studying journalism and becoming a reporter in Kerala where she works with the New Indian Express. She speaks on her plans for the future
Marouf Gazi of Srinagar Conferred Third NWMI Fellowship
Srinagar-based independent journalist Marouf Gazi, 26, has been conferred the Third NWMI Fellowship (2019), instituted to support women journalists working in various kinds of challenging situations.
This year, the NWMI received 28 excellent applications from Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand. The applicants belonged to various minorities, marginalized communities like Adivasis and Dalits, and also represented a range of media forms – print, online, television, radio and community media. Most of the applicants live and work in remote areas and in very challenging political and economic situations. All of them highlighted the difficulties of pursuing journalism as a career due to gender and other barriers.
The girl from Serpally who conquered journalism
Jayanti Buruda, recipient of the first NWMI Fellowship (2017-18), describes her challenging journey from a village in the remote Malkangiri district of Odisha to becoming the first Adivasi girl to study and become a journalist. She feels the NWMI Fellowship recognised her potential and allowed her to follow her dream.
My name is Jayanti Buruda. I am an Adivasi girl from the Koya tribe. My life started in Serpally, a small village in Odisha’s Malkangiri district. Since my childhood, it was a dream to pursue education somewhere outside but my father used to say if you have the desire to study, you can do so in any place. In the school that I studied there were hardly any teachers or any competition among the students, which was quite discouraging for me. But, anyway, with the guidance of my teachers I passed my tenth standard exam – the only student to pass, out of the 11 students in my class.