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.

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

  1. ^ Hartle, Paul (2010). "St Catharine's at the BBC" (PDF). Catharine Wheel. Summer.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Three Pounds in My Pocket: Radio 4 Presenter Kavita Puri's father shares his inspiring story". Radio Times. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  3. ^ 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)
  4. ^ "BBC Asian Network - Asian Network Reports, Three Pounds in My Pocket". BBC.
  5. ^ "Kavita Puri is Journalist of the Year 2015". Asian Media Awards. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  6. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Partition Voices". BBC.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ a b Keay, John (2019). "From Lahore to Lancashire". Literary Review. Retrieved 22 February 2020.

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