Mrinal Pande
Mrinal Pande | |
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| Born | 26 February 1946 |
| Alma mater | Allahabad University George Washington University |
| Occupation(s) | Hindi story writer, editor, columnist, essayist |
| Years active | 1967-present |
Mrinal Pande (born 26 February 1946) is an Indian television personality, journalist and author, and until 2009 chief editor of Hindi daily Hindustan. The famous Hindi writer, Shivani, is her mother.
Early life and education
Pande was born in Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, 26 February 1946. She studied initially at Nainital and then completed her Master's degree from Allahabad University.[1]
Career
Mrinal Pande has taught at the Universities of Allahabad, Delhi and Bhopal before switching to journalism in mid 1980s . She has edited well known Hindi periodicals, Vama and Saptahik Hindustan for the Times of India and the Hindustan Times group respectively. She has worked in the visual media as Editor- Anchor for Hindi news at NDTV and India’s public broadcaster, Doordarshan. In 2000, she became India’s first woman Chief Editor of a multi edition Hindi daily, Hindustan (Hindustan Times Group). She was also the first woman to be Secretary General of the Editors’ Guild of India. She is the founder President of the Indian Women’s Press Corps , a national body of India’s women journalists. Pande has been a member of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in India and also a member of the National Board for Film Certification . She was a member of the group that prepared Shramshakti , India’s first documentation of the status and lives of women workers in the unorganised informal sector . The report was published in 1989 . After retiring in 2009, she was appointed Chairman of India’s national broadcaster, Prasar Bharati in 2010. She completed her term in March 2014. Currently she is Group Editorial Advisor to The National Herald Group. Pande writes in both Hindi and in English. Her work covers fiction, plays and essays on contemporary India and its women and a study of India’s rural women and their sexual and reproductive lives. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2006 for her services in the field of journalism.[2]
Bibliography
- Devi, Tales of the Goddess in our time; 2000, Viking/Penguin.
- Daughter's Daughter, 1993. Penguin Books.[3]
- That Which Ram Hath Ordained, 1993, Seagull Books.[4]
- The Subject is Woman, 1991. Sanchar Publishing House, New Delhi.
- My Own Witness, New Delhi, Penguin, 2001, ISBN 0-14-029731-6.
- The Other Country: Dispatches from the Mofussil, New Delhi, Penguin, 2012
See also
References
- ^ Mrinal Pandey Profile www.abhivyakti-hindi.org.
- ^ "MRINAL PANDE".
- ^ Mrinal Pande Books Archived 19 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mrinal Pande Books
External links
- A price for life, an article in The Hindu[usurped]
- The hindi media and an unreal discourse an article in The Hindu
- The games of masking from reality an article in The Hindu
Works online
- Chimgadadein, a short story by Mrinal Pande
- 'Bitch', a short story by Mrinal Pande
- Bibbo, a short story by Mrinal Pande
- Mrinal Pande's article: India’s nurseries of politics
- Mrinal Pande columns at Mint (newspaper)
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- 1946 births
- Living people
- Indian women journalists
- Indian newspaper editors
- Indian women television presenters
- Indian television presenters
- Indian women newspaper editors
- University of Allahabad alumni
- Indian columnists
- Journalists from Madhya Pradesh
- Indian women columnists
- Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education
- Indian women novelists
- 20th-century Indian novelists
- 20th-century Indian women writers
- 20th-century Indian journalists
- 21st-century Indian women writers
- 21st-century Indian novelists
- 21st-century Indian journalists
- Women writers from Madhya Pradesh
- Novelists from Madhya Pradesh