Teesta Setalvad

Teesta Setalvad ( Gujarat , February 9 1962 ) is an Indian journalist, publisher and human rights defender . ==[Life  edit ] == Setalvad studied philosophy at the University of Bombay in 1983 and began her career as a journalist. She worked for Bombay editions of The Daily and The Indian Express and then for the magazine Business India .

She is an ardent opponent of nuclear weapons, for counsel to human rights , women's rights and peace , and takes on prejudice . Right from the beginning of her career she worked with socio-political issues and she focused on marginal groups. She was an active member in the committee for women in the media of the union Bombay Union of Journalists. From the late eighties, she focused mainly on the coverage of the mainstream media and she is vehemently opposed to hate speech.

After the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in three Indian states, they concluded that religious minorities, women and dalits would become a target of terror.Together with a colleague she then founded the group Journalists against communalism (Journalist against Sectarianism) and Sabrang (all colors) on.

In the years 1992 and 1993, after the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya, its dissatisfaction with the coverage of the mainstream media grew and she decided with her ​​colleague and later husband Javed Anand to come up with its own magazine called communalism Combat .

In addition to their magazine she gives regular lectures, including on training for the police. Further, she performed several projects, such as the Education for a Plural India Program. With this project, they achieve it pluralist education is given in India.

Setalvad is a Hindu woman who married a Muslim man. For this reason, their lives and their work have already been threatened for years. In 2009 she was sued because its coverage of the riots in Gujarat might have exaggerated in 2002. ==[Recognition  edit ] == Setalvad has won several awards, including in 2003 with the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award and in 2007 with a Padma Shri . Her magazine communalism Combat in 2000 was awarded the Prince Claus Award .