Aug 17, 2023

Kissa Khaki ka: Annual celebration on 16th January,2023

 #KissaKhakiKa is the only podcast series by any police department. Dr. Vartika Nanda is the official storyteller of Kissa Khaki Ka. These podcasts are scripted and narrated by her on an honorary basis. She is an academic by profession, a journalist by vocation, and a prison reformer by passion. She has used the best practices of journalism and academia for studying and contributing to prison reforms. As the founder of the Tinka Tinka Foundation, she has tirelessly worked for improving the conditions in India’s prisons, such as including the introduction of prison radio in District Jail, Agra, and the jails of Haryana. She has authored three books on prisons including Tinka Tinka Tihar, Tinka Tinka Dasna, and Tinka Tinka Madhya Pradesh that present an authentic source of prison life and reforms in India. Her Tinka Tinka Jail Radio Podcasts are EXCLUSIVE podcasts dedicated to Indian prisons. Vartika Nanda was conferred with the Stree Shakti Puraskar by the President of India in 2014 for her seminal contribution to women's empowerment through media and literature. Her name has appeared in the Limca Book of Records twice, for her unique contribution to prison reforms, which was also taken due cognizance by the Supreme Court of India in 2018. Currently, she heads the Department of Journalism, at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University

















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