Dr. Vartika Nanda : कुछ यादें

Dr. Vartika Nanda

With a doctorate in journalism and over two decades of experience in electronic and print media, Vartika Nanda is the Head of the Department of Journalism at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. Earlier, she worked as Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi. She started early, as the youngest among the very few women reporters in India who ventured into crime reporting and rose to become the head of crime beat in NDTV in the early years of private media. She is also a media educator and India's leading prison reformer.

Job Roles: She has held various journalistic assignments in electronic media including Zee News, NDTV, Lok Sabha TV and Sahara India. Vartika was the first Executive Producer of Lok Sabha TV and played a crucial role in the conception, setting up and running of the channel. In her own words, running the Parliamentary channel daily during its infancy allowed her to “conceive and incubate her idea of merging reporting, research and packaging.” She was head of crime beat in NDTV.

Honors and Awards: The then President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Stree Shakti Puraskar on her on the occasion of International Women’s Day in Rashtrapati Bhavan in 2014. Stree Shakti Puraskar is the highest civilian honour for women in India.

Special Mention: Dr. Nanda’s work has been recognised in the Limca Book of Records twice.

She is Founder of the Tinka Tinka Movement, a series on prison reforms initiated for the literary and academic upliftment and reformation of inmates. Her suggestions on the issues of women inmates’ and children’s rights and concerns were appreciated by the Supreme Court of India in 2018.

Areas of Research: Prison reforms, broadcast journalism, print journalism, relationship between police, crime and the persecution of victims, gender reporting and portrayal of women in media.

Email: vartikalsr@gmail.com

Wesbite: tinkatinka.org

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