Kavita Puri
Kavita Puri is a British journalist, radio broadcaster, and author. Her 2019 book, Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, is based on her award-winning BBC Radio 4 documentary series of the same name.
She appeared on the podcast The Literary City with Ramjee Chandran to discuss her book, Partition Voices. In 2024 Kavita Puri presented a BBC radio 4 series called Three Million about the 1943 Bengal famine.
Biography
Puri studied law at St Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1995.[1][2]
Puri has worked on BBC Newsnight as a political producer, film producer and assistant editor, and as the editor of Our World, a foreign affairs documentary programme.[3] Her 2014 BBC Radio 4 series, Three Pounds in My Pocket,[4] told the stories of South Asians who migrated to post-war Britain.[3] In 2015, Puri was named Journalist of the Year by the Asian Media Awards.[5]
In Partition Voices, a three-part series produced for BBC Radio 4 in 2017, Puri documented the stories of Colonial British and British Asians who lived through the 1947 Partition of India.[6][7] Partition Voices won the Royal Historical Society's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize.[7] In 2019, she published a book, Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, based on the series.[7][8] In Literary Review, John Keay described the book as "the closest thing to a partition memorial currently on offer," and a "heartfelt and beautifully judged book".[8]
In 2018, then-Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Puri as a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum for a period of four years.[3]
References
- ^ Hartle, Paul (2010). "St Catharine's at the BBC" (PDF). Catharine Wheel. Summer.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Three Pounds in My Pocket: Radio 4 Presenter Kavita Puri's father shares his inspiring story". Radio Times. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ^ a b c Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (12 July 2018). "Victoria and Albert Museum appointment". GOV.UK. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "BBC Asian Network - Asian Network Reports, Three Pounds in My Pocket". BBC.
- ^ "Kavita Puri is Journalist of the Year 2015". Asian Media Awards. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Partition Voices". BBC.
- ^ a b c "'Partition Voices' book review: Indians in Britain relive partition with pain". The New Indian Express. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ^ a b Keay, John (2019). "From Lahore to Lancashire". Literary Review. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
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