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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.
The last few days have reminded us that no war can be won without good diplomacy.
War is politics by other means, said Karl Von Clausewitz, the Prussian military strategist in the eighteenth century. As societies change, and politics…
Watch | Wide Angle: Ceasefire Violations and India Pakistan Escalation Dynamics
In this episode of Wide Angle, Maya Mirchandani discusses the standoff between India and Pakistan.
New Delhi: Maya Mirchandani talks to Dr Happymon Jacob and Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain about escalation dynamics between India…
Indus Treaty: Why India Cannot Afford to Fight Fire With Water
Abrogating the longstanding treaty would globally dent the view that Indian diplomacy upholds the ethical.
Water is meant to douse fires, yet it is the one natural resource that has, time and again, either been a cause for global…
Watch | Wide Angle: Lessons from Pulwama Terror Attack
In this episode of Wide Angle, Maya Mirchandani talks with David Devadas about the Pulwama terror attack.
New Delhi: In this episode of Wide Angle, Maya Mirchandani discuss the recent Pulwama attack with David Devadas. David has…
The Parliamentary Panel Will Reinforce Bias on Twitter, Not Fix It
The committee, which has set a deadline for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to appear before it, could have aimed to do much more than just enabling right-wing voices.
Round one of the bout between the parliamentary panel on information…