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Maya Mirchandani is Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism and Media Studies at Ashoka University and Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation. For over two decades, she was a practicing journalist with NDTV, reporting on Indian foreign policy, conflict and national politics. She continues to be an active journalist and media commentator with regular columns and a weekly video blog called Wide Angle with Maya Mirchandani for TheWire.in. She has won the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism twice, the Red Ink Award for reporting on human rights as well as the Exchange for Media Broadcast Journalism Award for best international affairs reporting.

Why Far Right Extremism Needs to Be Designated as Terrorism

Maya Mirchandani Mar 24, 2023

The imperative now is for both honesty and political will amongst all UN member states, in order to formally accept that terrorism or violent extremism is no longer restricted to jihadist violence alone.

Indian news moguls have been willing to participate in political propaganda—for a price

Maya Mirchandani Feb 22, 2023

Politics of Hate, edited by Farahnaz Ispahani, brings together noted scholars and experts to analyse religious majoritarianism in South Asia.

Fractured Times Are Never Beyond Repair

Maya Mirchandani Feb 19, 2023

Kintsugi is the fine Japanese art of repairing ― and strengthening ― broken, fragile ceramic with finely powdered and lacquered gold. The reference to its imperfect beauty comes quite early on in the latest Shahrukh Khan blockbuster, …

As China Engages With Taliban, New Delhi Can’t Sit Out

Maya Mirchandani Jul 31, 2021

One thing that every US President since George W Bush has done is to promise to bring American soldiers home from what in September will be two decades of unending conflict in Afghanistan since 9/11

Government Assault on Digital Media Reflects Modi’s Paranoia

Maya Mirchandani May 30, 2021

By taking on big tech at a time when it tries to pulverize critics online, the BJP may have bitten off more than it could chew.

How Mamata’s Trinamool Broke The Glass Ceiling For Women In Politics

Maya Mirchandani Mar 22, 2021

While the Trinamool Congress sails ahead of its opponents on fielding women candidates, the relatively higher numbers of women in Bengal politics is part of a longer trend of gradual inclusion, to which more than one party has contributed.

India’s fight against the pandemic leads to infodemic targeting

Maya Mirchandani Feb 17, 2021

The tackling of the Coronavirus pandemic in India — book-ended by the announcement of a stringent lockdown in March 2020, and now an ambitious nationwide vaccination plan in January 2021 — has laid bare social, economic, religious, and…

On Chabahar, India Must Recover Lost Ground With Iran Quickly

Maya Mirchandani Jul 18, 2020

Ripples in the India-Iran bilateral relationship have risen to the surface once again, forcing the question of whether India's policy and commitment towards the development of the Chabahar Port project is unraveling.

Meet Badlu Khan, a Symbol of the Syncretic India the Hindu Right Wants to Erase

Maya Mirchandani Mar 10, 2020

The doorbell rings at 11 am, right on schedule. Delhi is still coming to terms with brutal communal violence that has left 53 people dead at last count, but Badlu Khan Nizami arrives for his weekly music class, determined not to allow the…

The Kashmir gambit: Economic empowerment, political disempowerment?

Maya Mirchandani Sep 17, 2019 0

The real picture of today's Kashmir is carefully kept out of the sight of the rest of the population. The government of India is doing everything in its power to present a supposedly 'normal' Kashmir. But in the name of economic empowerment…