PRIO is delighted to welcome Arijit Sen for a presentation and dialogue on 16 June at 2:00 PM in Philosopher’s Hall. Mr. Sen will hold a presentation on Reporting on Conflict in India: Hidden Wars and Hidden Media. In particular, Arijit will focus on challenges of conflict reporting in Northeast India, and show brief clips of his reporting in the conflict zone of Manipur. Following his presentation there will be a question and answer period for further discussion or dialogue. Arijit is also the author of a popular blog: Flying Trapeze. Arijit’s bio is below.
Arijit Sen reports from the conflict zones of Northeastern India and bordering regions, as the Senior Special Correspondent for CNN-IBN, India’s leading 24 hour news channel. Arijit has been a journalist since 1999, specializing in political economy, rural development and governance. Since 2007, he shifted focus to armed conflict, militancy and secessionist movements, reporting exclusively from the 8 states comprising India’s North Eastern frontier. Arijit’s extensive travels in the region include special reports from Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Sikkim and Tripura as well as forays into the porous India-Bangladesh border, Myanmar and Bhutan. His reports include extensive coverage of Indian General elections, the Dalai Lama’s visit to the Tawang Monastery (Arunachal Pradesh) as well as an award winning news documentary on extra-judicial ‘fake’ encounters in Manipur (September 2009). His bold reportage has won the News Television Award for Best News Documentary (2010) and the Ramnath Goenka award for Excellence in Journalism (2008-9).
More information on Arijit’s work can also be found at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
