Nirantar Radio

Episode 06

Suneeta Prajapati: The Joys of Reporting Crime

In the finale episode of Season 1 of the F-Rated Interview, Suneeta takes us through her childhood in the mining town of Mahoba where she went from reading whatever scraps of newspaper she could find to becoming an award-winning journalist with Khabar Lahariya. For Suneeta, crime reporting is a source of great pleasure as she gets to look powerful people in the eye, and ask them questions.

Suneeta Prajapati started working with Khabar Lahariya as an 18 year-old in 2012, and is now the operations manager at Chambal Academy where she trains and empowers young girls from rural areas to use the feminist lens to cover stories and issues that affect them. Over the years, Suneeta has taken on the nexus between politicians, media and mining contractors, tracked the debilitating violence against women in UP, and covered local and national elections.

10 years ago, F-Rating was created to help classify films which are written or directed by one or more female film-makers, or feature complex female characters who contribute significantly to the story. But what if ‘feminist’ is not a noun but an adjective? What if the feminist lens lends itself to all practices and not only film-making? Nirantar Radio brings to you ‘F-Rated Interviews’ where The Third Eye team speaks to different practitioners about their practice – but with a feminist lens.

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Check out The Third Eye’s Crime edition here.  

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Produced by: Juhi Jotwani and Madhuri Adwani

Artwork: Tavisha Singh

Madhuri Adwani produces, records and edits narratives and sound pieces on Nirantar Radio. She also mentors and facilitates workshops as part of The Learning Lab where her core enquiry is ‘how do we write and tell our narratives’.

Juhi is a writer and a researcher who writes long form pieces, provides editorial support, and produces podcast episodes and audio pieces for The Third Eye’s podcast channel Nirantar Radio.
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