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 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 cultural fault-lines Read more...
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. Read more...
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 Read more...
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 Read more...
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 […] Read more...
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 […] Read more...
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 […] Read more...
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 […] Read more...
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 […] Read more...