30 January - 3 February 2025 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur
Mrinal Pande has taught at the Universities of Allahabad, Delhi and Bhopal before switching to journalism in mid 1980s . She has edited well known Hindi periodicals, Vama and Saptahik Hindustan for the Times of India and the Hindustan Times group respectively. She has worked in the visual media as Editor- Anchor for Hindi news at NDTV and India’s public broadcaster, Doordarshan. In 2000, she became India’s first woman Chief Editor of a multi edition Hindi daily, Hindustan (Hindustan Times Group). She was also the first woman to be Secretary General of the Editors’ Guild of India. She is the founder President of the Indian Women’s Press Corps , a national body of India’s women journalists. Pande has been a member of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in India and also a member of the National Board for Film Certification . She was a member of the group that prepared Shramshakti , India’s first documentation of the status and lives of women workers in the unorganised informal sector . The report was published in 1989 . After retiring in 2009, she was appointed Chairman of India’s national broadcaster, Prasar Bharati in 2010. She completed her term in March 2014.
Currently she is Group Editorial Advisor to The National Herald Group. Pande writes in both Hindi and in English. Her work covers fiction, plays and essays on contemporary India and its women and a study of India’s rural women and their sexual and reproductive lives. She was awarded the Padmashree in 2006 for her services in the field of journalism.
