Why Reporting on the Lives and Livelihoods of 800+ Million Rural Indians Should Matter
CASI-Related Event
Shalini Singh
Indian Journalist & Principal Correspondent, The Week
Annenberg School for Communication, Room 300
3620 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3620 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Shalini Singh is an Indian journalist who was Principal Correspondent for The Week newsweekly in Delhi. She was part of the Delhi bureau writing on a range of news-features, social trends with a focus on gender and women's issues, arts and culture. On a Centre for Science and Environment fellowship in 2010, Singh exposed the illegal mining in the Indian state of Goa and the devastation caused from unplanned tourism. Singh is a founding member of the CounterMedia Trust and a regular contributor to the People's Archive of Rural India and is currently a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University 2017-2018.
The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
The Saluja Global Fellows Program has been made possible by the generous gift from Vishal Saluja ENG’89 W’89. CASI was excited to launch the program during the 2022–23 academic year, coinciding with the Center’s 30th Anniversary. This new program enables CASI to invite eminent leaders and rising experts on contemporary India preferably from the fields of media, culture, law, and contemporary history to be in residence for one to two weeks at CASI.