BA English (Honours) from St Stephen's College, Delhi University,
MA in Romantic and Sentimental Literature from the University of York
Assistant Professor of Practice
| ipsita.chakravarty@jgu.edu.in | |
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| ORCID ID | 0009-0005-5114-0569 |
| Key Expertise | oral histories, conflict, conflict and culture, citizenship and identity |
BA English (Honours) from St Stephen's College, Delhi University,
MA in Romantic and Sentimental Literature from the University of York
Ipsita Chakravarty is a journalist who has written and reported extensively on armed conflicts and identity politics in Kashmir and the states of North East India. She is particularly interested in the lived experience of conflict among local communities. Her book, Dapaan, is a polyphonic retelling of the Kashmir conflict which centres the voices of ordinary Kashmiris.
She has spent a decade and a half in newsrooms, including The Times of India, The Telegraph, The Indian Express and Scroll. In 2021, she was a fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in the University of Oxford.
Writing and Editing: Theory and Practice; Researching and Reporting News
RedInk Award for Reporting on Human Rights, 2017
Shortlisted in the Politics category of the RedInk Awards in 2016
Ramnath Goenka Award (Priya Chandrasekhar Memorial Award for Excellence in Editing), 2014
Journalist Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 2021
| ipsita.chakravarty@jgu.edu.in | |
| ORCID ID | 0009-0005-5114-0569 |
| Key Expertise | oral histories, conflict, conflict and culture, citizenship and identity |