May 22 2026 to May 22 2026 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Language: Hindi and English

Khabar Lahariya means news waves. For twenty-five years, a group of women in Bundelkhand created exactly that through their reporting, filming, editing, broadcasting. All in a region that had never seen women read the news, much less report it.

This session marks the launch of The Good Reporter — a biography of India’s only all-women rural news collective, written from the inside out through a unique collective process.

Their story was painted only as triumph. They are now telling it themselves.

The grief and the anger. The thrill and the resistance. What it means in today’s world to negotiate caste, class and patriarchy as a woman, a journalist, and a writer all at once.

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Speakers

Disha Mullick
Writer & Consultant
Disha Mullick lives in Bangalore and is a writer and consultant. She has worked as an editor and journalist, and then at Khabar Lahariya for eighteen years. She is a South Asia Speaks and Acumen Fellow, and received the New India Foundation fellowship to write this collective biography.

Meera Devi
Managing Editor, Khabar Lahariya
Meera Devi lives in Banda and is a postgraduate in Political Science. She joined Khabar Lahariya in 2006, to start the Banda edition, and is at present the Managing Editor of Khabar Lahariya.

Nazni Rizvi
Chief Reporter, Khabar Lahariya
Nazni Rizvi is from Banda. She doesn’t have a degree per se, but she studied up to class 5 and then joined Khabar Lahariya in 2007. She began as an agent, selling the newspaper for a commission and worked her way up to a full time Chief Reporter.

Lakshmi Sharma
Executive Producer, Khabar Lahariya
Lakshmi Sharma is from Bihar’s smallest district, Sheohar. She’s a graduate in Hindi literature. She joined Khabar Lahariya as a reporter in 2010 and at present is an Executive Producer. Her favourite thing to do is video editing.

Kavita Bundelkhandi
Co-founder, Khabar Lahariya
Kavita Bundelkhandi lives in Banda. In her childhood, it was considered wrong to have girls study. After she was married, she studied at the Mahila Samakhya centre, and then went on to do a postgraduation in Political Science. She’s a co-founder of Khabar Lahariya and the editor-in-chief and CEO of Chambal Media, Khabar Lahariya’s parent company. She also hosts a show called ‘The Kavita Show’.

Harshita Verma
Communications Manager, Khabar Lahariya
Harshita Verma is from Kanpur and lives in Hyderabad. She has a postgraduate degree in marketing. She joined Khabar Lahariya as a social media manager and now oversees the organisation’s communication and outreach.

Vijeta Kumar
Professor, Communicative English, St. Joseph's University
Vijetha Kumar teaches Communicative English at St. Joseph’s University, Bengaluru.