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She covered all the major stories in the region including the nuclear tests, the ethnic war in Sri Lanka, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, conflicts in India's Kashmir and North East and reported extensively from the line of control between India and Pakistan. |
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Anita Pratap was born on December 23,1958 in Kottayam, Kerala. Her father K.J.Simon
worked for Tata Steel and mother Nancy. She finished her schooling from Loreto House Calcutta. Did Senior
Cambridge and scored 95% in English language and 95% in English literature. She graduated in BA (Hons) from Miranda House, Delhi,
topping the college and winning several awards like The Founders Day Prize and the G.Pershad
memorial Prize "for being the best in English in the honours course"
Anita Pratap pursued a degree course, B.S. (Communication) from Bangalore
University. In 1979, she worked under Arun Shourie and started out as a reporter in the Indian Express.
Her son Zubin is doing his fourth year in the National Law School in Bangalore.
Her husband Arne Walther, who was Norway’s ambassador to India from 1995 to
1999, is currently posted in Oslo.
Anita was the South Asia Bureau Chief of CNN till January 1999. She covered all
the major stories in the region including the nuclear tests, the ethnic war in
Sri Lanka, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, conflicts in India's Kashmir and
North East and reported extensively from the line of control between India and
Pakistan. She was the first television journalist to report from the 22,000 ft
Siachen Glacier, the highest battleground on earth, where Indian and Pakistani
armies exchange fire almost daily. During her reportage, she has interviewed all
the heads of nations in the region.
Before joining CNN, she worked for eight years as a correspondent for TIME magazine, covering stories in the
region. Before that, Anita was a reporter for leading Indian magazines and
newspapers including "India Today", "Sunday" and the "Indian Express".
Over the past 20 years, in addition to hardcore breaking news, Anita has consistently
reported on issues such as population, education, health care, poverty, child,
women, cultural and historical issues. Currently she is working as an
independent documentary filmmaker, producing and directing films on these
issues.
AWARDS:
- Won the American George Polk Award in 1997 for excellence in television
reporting for coverage of the Taliban takeover of Kabul.
- Won the Eminent Indian Award conferred by the Indo-American Society in 1997.
- Won all three nominations in the television news category for the Pinnacle Award
for stories on Kashmir, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
- Won the Chameli Devi Jain Award in 1998 given to an "Outstanding Woman
Media Person".
- Was conferred the "Woman Achiever of the Year" award by Giants
International in December 1998.
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